Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 2, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-23597
CVE-2023-23597
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.
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Affected products
5unspecified+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: <109
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <109.0
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 109.0-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 109.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
Patches
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References
2- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/nvdVendor Advisory
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