CVE-2023-5172 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A hashtable in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Published: 2023-09-27

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 118

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-6404-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00247.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852218
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2023-09-27T14:13:33.980Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T17:54:52.409Z

Reserved: 2023-09-25T15:03:42.733Z

Link: CVE-2023-5172

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:07.786Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-27T15:19:42.283

Modified: 2025-05-01T18:15:52.133

Link: CVE-2023-5172

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-416

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