CVE-2023-23597

Logic bug in process allocation allowed to read arbitrary files

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 2, 2023
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Reserved: Jan 16, 2023

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 109Affected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/

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