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CVE-2023-6213 (GCVE-0-2023-6213)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-21 14:28 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:26
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Summary
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 119. 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 < 120.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 120
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 120 (custom)
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Mozilla Developers
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