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.
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Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the <code>file://</code> context. Given a reliable exploit primitive, this new process could be exploited again leading to arbitrary file read. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109. | 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. |
| Title | Logic bug in process allocation allowed to read arbitrary files |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2025-12-18T15:23:23.531Z
Reserved: 2023-01-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2023-23597
Updated: 2024-08-02T10:35:33.591Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-06-02T17:15:10.537
Modified: 2025-12-18T16:15:48.180
Link: CVE-2023-23597
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