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CVE-2023-23597

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2023-06-02 Modified: 2026-06-17

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 Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

CWE-326

References