CVE-2023-6873
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 120. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
02 Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 120. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 57.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-12-19 13:38Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-02-13 17:26Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-12-15
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c09c2202c9f6d885add491b736f2e6b89d28be269c93b0ac9668ca0e54205c31
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.mozilla.orgMemory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 121https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1855327%2C1862089%2C1862723
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/
- www.debian.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582
- lists.debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html
- security.gentoo.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:115.6.0-1~deb12u1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- mozjs38 No fix yet
- mozjs52 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 121.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs52 No fix yet
- mozjs68 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- mozjs102 No fix yet
- mozjs78 No fix yet
- mozjs91 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- mozjs102 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.