CVE-2023-23597

Published Jun 2, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 6.5

Overview

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.
Source: security@mozilla.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-326

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2809632C-444A-49A3-A7E7-D3BB027A91B8",
            "versionEndExcluding": "109.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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