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CVE-2023-23597
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-06-02T17:15:10.537 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:37:32.680

Summary

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 products

mozilla — firefox

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References

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