CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2023-6857
Medium (5.3). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
When resolving a symlink, a race may occur where the buffer passed to `readlink` may actually be smaller than necessary.
*This bug only affects Firefox on Unix-based operating systems (Android, Linux, MacOS). Windows is unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6, Thunderbird < 115.6, and Firefox < 121.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- mozilla:firefox
- mozilla:firefox_esr
- mozilla:thunderbird