CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5173
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In a non-standard configuration of Firefox, an integer overflow could have occurred based on network traffic (possibly under influence of a local unprivileged webpage), leading to an out-of-bounds write to privileged process memory.
*This bug only affects Firefox if a non-standard preference allowing non-HTTPS Alternate Services (`network.http.altsvc.oe`) is enabled.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 118)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823172 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=1823172 Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory