CVE-2023-32216: mozilla firefox Out-of-bounds Write
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-32216 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 19-06-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 27-05-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Ronald Crane, Andrew McCreight, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 112. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 113.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.78%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
55%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.78% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu6 products
- firefox< 113.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 113.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 113 | < 113.0
2 vendors · 7 products
References
7 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgiBroken Link
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-16/Vendor Advisory