CVE-2023-5171

2023-09-2715:19:42

CWE-416

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145

cve-2023-5171

ion compilation

firefox

thunderbird

vulnerability

use-after-free

exploitable crash

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

31.5%

JSON

During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

Affected configurations

Vulners

NVD

Node

mozillafirefoxRange≤118

mozillafirefox_esrRange≤115.3

mozillathunderbirdRange≤115.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Firefox",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "118",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox ESR",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "115.3",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Thunderbird",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "115.3",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]