CVE-2023-48235

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El impacto es bajo, se requiere la interacci\u00f3n del usuario y es posible que ni siquiera ocurra una falla en todas las situaciones. Este problema se solucion\u00f3 en el commit `060623e` que se incluy\u00f3 en la versi\u00f3n 9.0.2110. Se recomienda a los usuarios que actualicen. 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