CVE-2023-23598

Publication date 18 January 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 109.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 109.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
mozjs38 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs52 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs68 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs78 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs91 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
thunderbird 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5816-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 23 January 2023
    • USN-5824-1
    • Thunderbird vulnerabilities
    • 6 February 2023

Other references