Security Resilience

CVE-2023-23598

Mozilla Firefox ≤ 109.0

Published
02 June 2023
Modified
18 December 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0064 50th percentile
Risk Priority 51 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-23598 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 50th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

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…

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Firefox < 109, Firefox ESR < 102.7, and Thunderbird < 102.7.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 109.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 102.7
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 102.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References