CVE-2023-6873

2023-12-2000:00:00

ubuntu.com

firefox

memory safety

remote code execution

vulnerability

firefox 120

firefox 121

memory corruption

spidermonkey

javascript engine

ubuntu

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

7.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

25.4%

JSON

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.

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< 121.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs102< 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	< 121.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	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