CVE-2023-23597 Information

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.

Reference

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538028