CVE-2023-5170

high

Description

In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly, leading to a memory leak of a privileged process. This memory leak could be used to effect a sandbox escape if the correct data was leaked. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

References

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-27

Updated: 2024-01-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

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

Severity: High