
Reproduction environment for CVE-2023-4357 Chrome XXE vulnerability with SVG-based file access bypass exploit and step-by-step setup instructions.
Network Security Project
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in XML in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed a remote attacker to bypass file access restrictions via a crafted HTML page.
$ wget https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/114.0.5735.90/linux64/chrome-linux64.zip
$ unzip chrome-linux64.zip
$ ./chrome-linux64/chrome --no-sandbox
$ chmod +x start_server.sh
$ ./start_server.sh
access the d.svg file on Chrome by navigating to localhost on port 8888
http://127.0.0.1:8888/d.svg