CVE-2023-5172

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Sep 27, 2023
Updated: May 1, 2025
Reserved: Sep 25, 2023

Description

A hashtable in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 118Affected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852218
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10

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