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CVE-2023-23597

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CVE-2023-23597

Published: Jun 2, 2023

Modified: Dec 18, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Mozilla

Firefox

affected
unspecified - < 109

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