CVE-2023-6873

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 120. 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 < 121.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1855327%2C1862089%2C1862723	Broken Link Issue Tracking
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10	Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582	Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:::::::*

History

02 Feb 2024, 02:29

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
References	~~() https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html -~~	() https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 -~~	() https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2023-12-19 14:15

Updated : 2024-02-02 02:29

NVD link : CVE-2023-6873

Mitre link : CVE-2023-6873

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-6873

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

debian

debian_linux

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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