Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4574 - Use After Free vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
When creating a callback over IPC for showing the Color Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 102.15, Firefox ESR < 115.2, Thunderbird < 102.15, and Thunderbird < 115.2.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-36/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-35/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846688
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-38/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-37/