CVE-2023-23606 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00159.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1764974%2C1798591%2C1799201%2C1800446%2C1801248%2C1802100%2C1803393%2C1804626%2C1804971%2C1807004
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/

History

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.	Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.
Title		Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 109

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00

Updated: 2025-12-18T15:23:28.129Z

Reserved: 2023-01-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-23606

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:35:33.613Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-02T17:15:10.957

Modified: 2025-12-18T16:15:49.367

Link: CVE-2023-23606

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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