CVE-2023-23597

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.

• CWE-326

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 2, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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