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CVE-2023-6865

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

`EncryptingOutputStream` was susceptible to exposing uninitialized data. This issue could only be abused in order to write data to a local disk which may have implications for private browsing mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6 and Firefox < 121.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0, 12.0
• Mozilla Firefox: before 121.0 — fixed in 121.0
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 115.6 — fixed in 115.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 121.0; Mozilla Firefox ESR 115.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864123
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5581
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-54/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864123
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5581
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-54/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/

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