Vulnerability · Published Oct 24, 2023 · Assigned by mozilla

CVE-2023-5724

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Firefox from Mozilla. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Drivers are not always robust to extremely large draw calls and in some cases this scenario could have led to a crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 119, Firefox ESR < 115.4, and Thunderbird < 115.4.1.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8firefox115.4.0-1.el8_8.alma.1ALSA-2023:6187
AlmaLinux:9firefox115.4.0-1.el9_2.alma.1ALSA-2023:6188
AlmaLinux:9firefox-x11115.4.0-1.el9_2.alma.1ALSA-2023:6188
AlmaLinux:8thunderbird115.4.1-1.el8_8.alma.1ALSA-2023:6194
AlmaLinux:9thunderbird115.4.1-1.el9_2.almaALSA-2023:6191
Alpine:v3.20firefox119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.21firefox119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.22firefox119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.23firefox119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.20firefox-esr115.4.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.21firefox-esr115.4.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.22firefox-esr115.4.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.23firefox-esr115.4.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.22librewolf119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.23librewolf119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.24librewolf119.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.20thunderbird115.4.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.21thunderbird115.4.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.22thunderbird115.4.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Alpine:v3.23thunderbird115.4.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:12firefox-esr115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1DSA-5535-1
Debian:12firefox-esr115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:13firefox-esr115.4.0esr-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:14firefox-esr115.4.0esr-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:12thunderbird1:115.4.1-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:12thunderbird1:115.4.1-1~deb12u1DSA-5538-1
Debian:13thunderbird1:115.4.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Debian:14thunderbird1:115.4.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5724
Rocky Linux:9firefox0:115.4.0-1.el9_2RLSA-2023:6188
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmozjs102no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSmozjs102no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmozjs78no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmozjs91no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSthunderbird1:115.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-6468-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSthunderbird1:115.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSthunderbird1:115.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5724

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Mozilla Firefox unspecified – before 119
Mozilla Firefox ESR unspecified – before 115.4
Mozilla Thunderbird unspecified – before 115.4.1

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References