CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5170
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 118.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory