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CVE-2023-5169A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 118
- affected unspecified – < 115.3
- affected unspecified – < 115.3
References
References9
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846685 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-57506 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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