CVE-2023-4046 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation15 documents8 sources

Severity

5.3MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.3%

top 47.10%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox ESR Mozilla Thunderbird +1 more

Timeline

PublishedAug 1

Latest updateOct 3

Description

In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis. This resulted in incorrect compilation and a potentially exploitable crash in the content process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 102.14, and Firefox ESR < 115.1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 116

▶NVDmozilla/firefox102.0 — 102.14+2

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 102.14+1

▶Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:102.14.0-1~deb11u1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, 12.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

OSV

thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-09-04

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CVEList

CVE-2023-4046: In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis↗2023-08-01

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GHSA

GHSA-9fw5-r669-cvr3: In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis↗2023-08-01

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OSV

CVE-2023-4046: In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis↗2023-08-01

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📋Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu

SpiderMonkey vulnerabilities↗2023-10-03

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Ubuntu

Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-09-04

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Ubuntu

Firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-08-02

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Red Hat

Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation↗2023-08-01

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Debian

CVE-2023-4046: firefox - In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable ...↗2023

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