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CVE-2023-5174

Mozilla: Double-free in process spawning on Windows

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 26, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using runas). 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 · 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE not specified