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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2023-29531 json

An attacker could have caused an out of bounds memory access using WebGL APIs, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable c…

published 2023-06-19 3 y ago modified 2026-10-24 16 d ago also EUVD-2023-33073

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An attacker could have caused an out of bounds memory access using WebGL APIs, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

*This bug only affects Firefox and Thunderbird for macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, and Thunderbird < 102.10.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 112
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 102.10
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.10
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP4, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 102.10.1-150200.8.113.2
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +9 more 102.10.0-150200.152.84.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +6 more 102.10.0-112.156.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS 102.10.0-150000.150.82.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:2064-1SUSE-SU-2023:1855-1SUSE-SU-2023:1819-1SUSE-SU-2023:1817-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 102.10.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 112.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12852-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12882-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +3 more 102.10.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-29531

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-29531 updated cvss 7.5

Mozilla: Out-of-bound memory access in WebGL on macOS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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