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.

CVSS 3.1

6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2023-06-02

Modified

2026-10-23

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-24

Affected

• mozilla:firefox
• mozilla:firefox_esr
• mozilla:thunderbird

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800425
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-02/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-03/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800425

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