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MFSA2023-01 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 109 (CVE-2023-23598)

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MFSA2023-01 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 109 (CVE-2023-23598)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/17/2023
Created
01/19/2023
Added
01/18/2023
Modified
06/12/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-109_0

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