CVE-2023-4582
Published: 11 September 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4582 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-54436
Vulnerability details
Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occurred when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are…
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unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.
- 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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.