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CVE-2023-23597

Date: June 2, 2023

A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the <code>file://</code> context. Given a reliable exploit primitive, this new process could be exploited again leading to arbitrary file read. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.

Language: C++

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/#CVE-2023-23597
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2023-23597
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23597
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/399a2f946da961404ec639da3fcda67b0302f4c7
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-23597

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Inadequate Encryption Strength

CWE-326

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

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