CVE-2023-23598 (GCVE-0-2023-23598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-02 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-18 15:22
VLAI
Title
Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux
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 `DataTransfer.setData`. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Firefox ESR < 102.7, and Thunderbird < 102.7.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-09 16:22 UTC
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 679 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 109 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 102.7 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 102.7 (custom)
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Credits
Tom Schuster
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