Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 115.

published 2023-08-01 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-53949

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits: 0; none known

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 115. 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 < 116.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1

Mozilla Firefox 116

firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 116.0.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13124-1

Exploit prediction

0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	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

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2023-29/
vendor-advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org /buglist.cgi?bug_id=1819160%2C1828024
broken-link
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202401-10

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-4058
NVD CVE-2023-4058

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Summary