Arbitrary File Read Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,102.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-3244407
  • published22 Jan 2023
  • disclosed17 Jan 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-23598  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 102.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read. 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 on Linux machines.

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