CVE-2023-23598

medium

Description

Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Thunderbird < 102.7, and Firefox ESR < 102.7.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-03/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-02/

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

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800425

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium