Security Resilience

CVE-2023-25737

Mozilla Firefox ≤ 110.0

Published
02 June 2023
Modified
09 January 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0070 52th percentile
Risk Priority 65 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-25737 is a high-severity Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast (CWE-704) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An invalid downcast from <code>nsTextNode</code> to <code>SVGElement</code> could have lead to undefined behavior. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-704

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Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 110.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 102.8
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 102.8

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
blocks

Secure development lifecycle includes type-safety reviews that reduce incorrect casts.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
blocks

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including resilience against attacks such as buffer overflows or SQL injection) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself enforce, implement, or prevent any type-conversion defects from arising or being exploitable.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
degrades

Secure architecture principles discourage unsafe type conversions in design.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards directly forbid or detect incorrect type casts.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance partial match
finds

Security testing can uncover type-conversion defects before release.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-704, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References