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CVE-2023-5169

Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 26, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a PathRecording, resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.

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 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write