CVE-2023-23597 — Inadequate Encryption Strength in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 72.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-5gvm-v5f4-x692: A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the file:// conte↗2023-06-02
OSV▶
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://` con↗2023-01-18