CVE detail

CVE-2023-6856 — CVE-2023-6856

Published 2023-12-19 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor mozilla · Product firefox · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.2047

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

97.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The WebGL `DrawElementsInstanced` method was susceptible to a heap buffer overflow when used on systems with the Mesa VM driver. This issue could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution and sandbox escape. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6, Thunderbird < 115.6, and Firefox < 121.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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