Mozilla Firefox up to 115.23.1 WASM JIT Analysis denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component WASM JIT Analysis. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-4046. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown part of the component WASM JIT Analysis. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis. This resulted in incorrect compilation and a potentially exploitable crash in the content process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 102.14, and Firefox ESR < 115.1.

The weakness was disclosed 08/01/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-4046 since 08/01/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239763 (TencentOS Server 4: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0450)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 116 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239763). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Mozilla

Name

• Firefox

Version

• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.7.1
• 0.7.2
• 0.7.3
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.2.1
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.4.1
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.9
• 0.9.35
• 0.9.48
• 0.10
• 0.10.1
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.1
• 1.1.8
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.0.1
• 1.5.0.2
• 1.5.0.3
• 1.5.0.4
• 1.5.0.5
• 1.5.0.6
• 1.5.0.7
• 1.5.0.8
• 1.5.0.9
• 1.5.0.10
• 1.5.0.11
• 1.5.0.12
• 1.5.0.14
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.8
• 2
• 2.0
• 2.0 .4
• 2.0 8
• 2.0.0.1
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• 2.0.0.19
• 2.0.0.20
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.5
• 3
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
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• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14
• 3.0.15
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• 3.0.17
• 3.0.19
• 3.0beta5
• 3.1
• 3.5
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 3.5.9
• 3.5.10
• 3.5.11
• 3.5.12
• 3.5.13
• 3.5.14
• 3.5.15
• 3.5.16
• 3.5.17
• 3.5.18
• 3.5.19
• 3.6
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.4
• 3.6.6
• 3.6.7
• 3.6.8
• 3.6.9
• 3.6.10
• 3.6.11
• 3.6.12
• 3.6.13
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• 3.6.15
• 3.6.16
• 3.6.17
• 3.6.18
• 3.6.19
• 3.6.20
• 3.6.21
• 3.6.22
• 3.6.26
• 3.6.28
• 3.7
• 3.11.5
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 6.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 7.0
• 7.0.1
• 8.0
• 8.0 for Mac
• 8.0.1
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 9.0
• 9.0.1
• 9.1
• 10.0
• 10.0.1
• 10.0.2
• 10.0.3
• 10.0.4
• 10.0.5
• 10.0.7
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 11.0
• 12.0
• 13.0
• 14
• 14.0.1
• 15
• 15.0.1 (downgrade)
• 15.0a1
• 16
• 16.0.1
• 16.0.2
• 17.0
• 17.0.1
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• 17.0.3
• 17.0.4
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• 18.0
• 19.0
• 19.0.1
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• 20.0
• 20.0.1
• 21.0
• 22.0
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• 23.0.1
• 24.0
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• 24.1.0
• 24.1.1
• 24.2
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• 24.5
• 24.7
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• 25.0
• 25.0.1
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• 28.0.1
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• 30.0
• 31
• 31.0
• 31.1.0
• 31.1.1
• 31.2
• 31.3.0
• 32.0
• 33
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• 34
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• 34.0.5
• 35
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• 36.0.3
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• 37.0.1
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• 38
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• 41.0
• 41.0.1
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• 44.0.2
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• 45.0
• 45.6
• 47.0
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• 49.0
• 49.0.2
• 50
• 50.0.1
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• 50.1
• 51
• 51.0.3
• 52
• 52.6
• 52.8
• 53
• 54.0
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• 57.0.1
• 58.0
• 58.0.1
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• 59.0.1
• 60
• 60.0
• 60.0.2
• 61
• 62.0
• 62.0.3
• 63.0
• 64
• 64.0
• 65
• 65.0.0
• 65.0.1
• 66
• 66.0
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• 67.0
• 67.0.2
• 67.0.3
• 67.0.4
• 68.0
• 68.0.2
• 68.7
• 68.11
• 68.12
• 69.0
• 69.0.1
• 70
• 70.0
• 71
• 71.0
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• 74.0
• 74.0.0
• 74.0.1
• 75.0
• 76
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• 77.0
• 78.0
• 78.4
• 78.7
• 78.10.1
• 80.0
• 81.0
• 82
• 82.0
• 83.0
• 84.0
• 85.0
• 86.0
• 87.0
• 88.0
• 89.0
• 89.0.1
• 90.0
• 91.0
• 91.0.1
• 91.7
• 91.8
• 92.0
• 93.0
• 94.0
• 95.0
• 96
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• 100
• 101
• 102
• 102.2
• 102.6
• 103
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• 108
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• 110
• 110.1
• 111
• 112
• 113
• 114
• 115
• 115.0.2
• 115.6
• 115.9
• 115.23
• 115.23.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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