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CVE-2023-23597

Logic bug in process allocation allowed to read arbitrary files

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 72% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
Mozilla · Firefox