vulnerability
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jan 23, 2023 | Jan 24, 2023 | Sep 1, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 23, 2023
Added
Jan 24, 2023
Modified
Sep 1, 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 <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Thunderbird < 102.7, and Firefox ESR < 102.7.
Solutions
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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