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CVE-2023-5176
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory…
Critical9.8EPSS 1.4%
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- mozilla
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3
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Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 118
- affected unspecified – < 115.3
- affected unspecified – < 115.3
References (8)
- Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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