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CVE-2023-5170

Date: September 27, 2023

In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly, leading to a memory leak of a privileged process. This memory leak could be used to effect a sandbox escape if the correct data was leaked. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Language: C++

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5170
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2023-5170
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-5170

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

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