CVE-2023-5168 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 27
Description
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* 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:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3CVEList▶
CVE-2023-5168: A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exp↗2023-09-27
OSV▶
CVE-2023-5168: A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exp↗2023-09-27
GHSA▶
GHSA-jw9m-8h6f-3q76: A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exp↗2023-09-27
📋Vendor Advisories
5Debian▶
CVE-2023-5168: firefox - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD...↗2023