CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-23597
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-326
Description
A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the `file://` context. Given a reliable exploit primitive, this new process could be exploited again leading to arbitrary file read. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 109.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/ Vendor Advisory