CVE-2023-5169

2023-09-2800:00:00

ubuntu.com

compromised content process

pathrecording

out-of-bounds write

exploitable crash

firefox

firefox esr

thunderbird

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

31.6%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu20.04noarchfirefox< 118.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchmozjs38< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchmozjs52< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchmozjs52< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchmozjs68< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs78< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs91< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	firefox	< 118.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	mozjs38	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	mozjs52	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	mozjs52	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	mozjs68	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs78	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs91	< any	UNKNOWN