CVE-2023-5168

critical

Description

A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846683

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-27

Updated: 2023-10-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical