Use After Free Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <118-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.02% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-FIREFOXESR-17763941
  • published1 Jul 2026
  • disclosed27 Sept 2023

Introduced: 27 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard firefox-esr to version 118-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1