medium6.5
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://` context.
Impact
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 109.0 |