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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.99% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-FIREFOXESR-17763947
  • published1 Jul 2026
  • disclosed27 Sept 2023

Introduced: 27 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5174  (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.

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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1