CVE-2023-28162
This could have led to a potentially exploitable crash.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
While implementing AudioWorklets, some code may have casted one type to another, invalid, dynamic type. This could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 111, Firefox ESR < 102.9, and Thunderbird < 102.9.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.70% probability · 53th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-704, CWE-843
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 0.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811327Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-09/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-10/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-11/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811327Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-09/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-10/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-11/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811327Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.