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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/ Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00

Updated: 2023-06-02T00:00:00

Reserved: 2023-01-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2023-23597

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-06-02T17:15:10.537

Modified: 2023-06-08T17:53:40.493


Link: CVE-2023-23597

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