CVE-2023-23598 — Multiple Interpretations of UI Input in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-450 — Multiple Interpretations of UI Input14 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedJun 2

Description

Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to `DataTransfer.setData`. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Firefox ESR < 102.7, and Thunderbird < 102.7.

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 Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 109
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 109.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 102.7
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 102.7
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 109.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-23598: Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a we↗2023-06-02
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CVEList
Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux↗2023-06-02
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GHSA
GHSA-h2qp-p99q-hmrr: Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a we↗2023-06-02
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OSV
firefox regressions↗2023-02-06
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-02-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-01-23
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux↗2023-01-17
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Debian
CVE-2023-23598: firefox - Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK tr...↗2023
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-01: CVE-2023-23598↗
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