CVE-2023-25738
Mozilla: Printing on Windows could potentially crash Firefox with some device drivers
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
Review impact separately from score.
Published · February 14, 2023
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
Members of the DEVMODEW struct set by the printer device driver weren't being validated and could have resulted in invalid values which in turn would cause the browser to attempt out of bounds access to related variables.
This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer