CVE-2023-37202

Published: 5 July 2023

Cross-compartment wrappers wrapping a scripted proxy could have caused objects from other compartments to be stored in the main compartment resulting in a use-after-free. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115, Firefox ESR < 102.13, and Thunderbird < 102.13.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Released (115.0-1)
	focal	Released (115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.3)
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	focal	Released (1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	upstream	Needs triage
	jammy	Released (1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
	kinetic	Released (1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1)
	lunar	Released (1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1)
mozjs38 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
mozjs52 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
mozjs68 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
mozjs78 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
mozjs91 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
mozjs102 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Released (102.13.0-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
	upstream	Needs triage
	kinetic	Released (102.13.0-0ubuntu0.22.10.1)
	lunar	Released (102.13.0-0ubuntu0.23.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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