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CVE-2023-23598

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.

  • Published: Jun 2, 2023
  • Updated: Dec 19, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2023-23598
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Software From Fixed in
mozilla / firefox - 109.0
mozilla / firefox_esr - 102.7
mozilla / thunderbird - 102.7