CVE-2023-29535

Following a Garbage Collector compaction, weak maps may have been accessed before they were correctly traced. This resulted in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Focus for Android < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, Firefox for Android < 112, and Thunderbird < 102.10.

Published: 2023-06-02 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-29535 is rated Moderate Risk (45.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-29535

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-31 0.35% 0.34% -0.01%
2 2026-04-12 0.33% 0.35% +0.02%
3 2026-04-08 0.33%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-29535

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-29535

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-29535

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2023-29535: 3 source package rows (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird); 126 state rows across 6 repos (3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 8, open 118. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-29535
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-29535 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 3 source packages (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird), 11 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 11. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-29535
gentoo high CVE-2023-29535: 2 GLSA(s) (202305-35, 202305-36), 4 atom(s) (mail-client/thunderbird, mail-client/thunderbird-bin, www-client/firefox, www-client/firefox-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2023-29535
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29535
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-29535 medium priority: Ubuntu including 8 source packages (firefox, mozjs102, …), 80 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 41, ignored 18, not-affected 10, released 10, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29535

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-29535

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 112.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox < 112.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*
mozilla firefox_esr < 102.10 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla focus < 112.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:focus:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*
mozilla thunderbird < 102.10 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-29535

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