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Red Hat: CVE-2023-23598: CVE-2023-23598 Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | Jan 23, 2023 | Jan 24, 2023 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 23, 2023
Added
Jan 24, 2023
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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 DataTransfer.setData
. This vulnerability affects Firefox
Solution(s)
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-firefoxredhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginforedhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-thunderbirdredhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginforedhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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