CVE-2023-23597

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-326

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 109

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 2, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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