CVE-2023-5172

Publication date 28 September 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

A hashtable in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 118.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored end of standard support
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
mozjs102 24.04 LTS noble Ignored
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs38 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs52 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs68 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs78 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs91 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
thunderbird 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored end of standard support
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H