CVE-2023-29537
Published: 02 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-29537 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-33079
Vulnerability details
Multiple race conditions in the font initialization could have led to memory corruption and execution of attacker-controlled code. This vulnerability affects Firefox for Android < 112, Firefox < 112, and Focus for Android < 112.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Accurate timestamps from internal clocks enable detection of race conditions by providing reliable event ordering in audit logs.
Coordination of concurrent security activities reduces the probability that shared resources will be accessed simultaneously without proper synchronization.