CVE-2023-4049

Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 1, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Race conditions in reference counting code were found through code inspection. These could have resulted in potentially exploitable use-after-free vulnerabilities.

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 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')