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CVE-2023-23597 A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being…

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Firefox 109 earliest → < 109 109

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