CVE-2023-5173

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Sep 27, 2023
Updated: Jan 7, 2024
CWE ID 190

Summary

CVE-2023-5173 is a vulnerability affecting Firefox browsers where an integer overflow can occur due to network traffic, potentially triggered by a local unprivileged webpage. If this non-standard configuration, allowing non-HTTPS Alternate Services (`network.http.altsvc.oe`), is enabled, it may lead to an out-of-bounds write to privileged process memory. This issue only impacts Firefox versions below 118.

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