Medium severity · published Sep 27, 2023
CVE-2023-5169
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a…
6.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 118 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
39 · source: NVD
FE
Firefox Esr · Mozilla
before 115.3 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 115.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5169
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5169
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846685
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
Patch
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513
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