CVE-2023-23597

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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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-02

Updated: 2025-12-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00075