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CVE-2023-6207 (GCVE-0-2023-6207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-21 14:28 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:26
VLAI
Summary
Ownership mismanagement led to a use-after-free in ReadableByteStreams This vulnerability affects Firefox < 120, Firefox ESR < 115.5.0, and Thunderbird < 115.5.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Use-after-free in ReadableByteStreamQueueEntry::Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 120 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.5.0 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.5 (custom)
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Credits
Yangkang of 360 ATA Team
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.