CVE-2023-23598
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-02 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 10:35
Severity ?
Summary
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 <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Thunderbird < 102.7, and Firefox ESR < 102.7.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800425Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-02/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-03/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox ESR
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