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 <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

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3