CVE-2023-23598

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Oct 23, 2026

Description

Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to `DataTransfer.setData`. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Firefox ESR < 102.7, and Thunderbird < 102.7.

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

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 2, 2023
Last modified
Oct 23, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2023-23598: Medium severity, CVSS 6.5 | Vulnix