CVE-2023-5169 (GCVE-0-2023-5169)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-27 14:13
Modified
2025-02-13 17:19
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Out-of-bounds write in PathOps
Summary
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
References
Impacted products
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| ► | Mozilla | Firefox |
Version: unspecified < 118 |
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