Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-5173

High

Published: 27 September 2023

Published
27 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-5173 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In a non-standard configuration of Firefox, an integer overflow could have occurred based on network traffic (possibly under influence of a local unprivileged webpage), leading to an out-of-bounds write to privileged process memory. *This bug only affects Firefox if a…

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non-standard preference allowing non-HTTPS Alternate Services (`network.http.altsvc.oe`) is enabled.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 118

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References