diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1cb46da48977..339810a2623d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4184,6 +4184,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "process_reader"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "goblin",
+ "memoffset",
+ "mozilla-central-workspace-hack",
+ "thiserror",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "processtools"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/Cargo.toml b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ee85951d5ba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[package]
+name = "process_reader"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Gabriele Svelto"]
+edition = "2018"
+license = "MPL-2.0"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+goblin = { version = "0.6", features = ["elf32", "elf64", "pe32", "pe64"] }
+memoffset = "0.8"
+mozilla-central-workspace-hack = { path = "../../../build/workspace-hack" }
+thiserror = "1.0"
+
+[target."cfg(target_os = \"windows\")".dependencies]
+[dependencies.winapi]
+version = "0.3"
diff --git a/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/error.rs b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..af4d803a7a44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+ * You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum ProcessReaderError {
+    #[error("Could not convert address {0}")]
+    ConvertAddressError(#[from] std::num::TryFromIntError),
+    #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+    #[error("Cannot enumerate the target process's modules")]
+    EnumProcessModulesError,
+    #[error("goblin failed to parse a module")]
+    GoblinError(#[from] goblin::error::Error),
+    #[error("Address was out of bounds")]
+    InvalidAddress,
+    #[error("Could not read from the target process address space")]
+    ReadFromProcessError(#[from] ReadError),
+    #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+    #[error("Section was not found")]
+    SectionNotFound,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum ReadError {
+    #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+    #[error("ReadProcessMemory failed")]
+    ReadProcessMemoryError,
+}
diff --git a/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/lib.rs b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..20bdad5207e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+type ProcessHandle = winapi::um::winnt::HANDLE;
+
+pub struct ProcessReader {
+    process: ProcessHandle,
+}
+
+mod error;
+mod process_reader;
diff --git a/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader.rs b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1473aafa09ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+mod windows;
diff --git a/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader/windows.rs b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader/windows.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fdc47f544831
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/crashreporter/process_reader/src/process_reader/windows.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+use std::{
+    convert::TryInto,
+    ffi::OsString,
+    mem::{size_of, MaybeUninit},
+    os::windows::ffi::OsStringExt,
+    ptr::null_mut,
+};
+
+use winapi::{
+    shared::minwindef::{FALSE, HMODULE, MAX_PATH},
+    um::{
+        memoryapi::ReadProcessMemory,
+        psapi::{GetModuleBaseNameW, K32EnumProcessModules, K32GetModuleInformation, MODULEINFO},
+    },
+};
+
+use crate::{
+    error::{ProcessReaderError, ReadError},
+    ProcessHandle, ProcessReader,
+};
+
+impl ProcessReader {
+    pub fn new(process: ProcessHandle) -> Result<ProcessReader, ProcessReaderError> {
+        Ok(ProcessReader { process })
+    }
+
+    pub fn find_section(
+        &self,
+        module_name: &str,
+        section_name: &str,
+    ) -> Result<usize, ProcessReaderError> {
+        let modules = self.get_module_list()?;
+
+        modules
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|&&module| {
+                let name = self.get_module_name(module);
+                // Crude way of mimicking Windows lower-case comparisons but
+                // sufficient for our use-cases.
+                name.is_some_and(|name| name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(module_name))
+            })
+            .find_map(|&module| {
+                self.get_module_info(module).and_then(|info| {
+                    self.find_section_in_module(
+                        section_name,
+                        info.lpBaseOfDll as usize,
+                        info.SizeOfImage as usize,
+                    )
+                    .ok()
+                })
+            })
+            .ok_or(ProcessReaderError::InvalidAddress)
+    }
+
+    fn get_module_list(&self) -> Result<Vec<HMODULE>, ProcessReaderError> {
+        let mut module_num: usize = 100;
+        let mut required_buffer_size: u32 = 0;
+        let mut module_array = Vec::<HMODULE>::with_capacity(module_num);
+
+        loop {
+            let buffer_size: u32 = (module_num * size_of::<HMODULE>()).try_into()?;
+            let res = unsafe {
+                K32EnumProcessModules(
+                    self.process,
+                    module_array.as_mut_ptr() as *mut _,
+                    buffer_size,
+                    &mut required_buffer_size as *mut _,
+                )
+            };
+
+            module_num = required_buffer_size as usize / size_of::<HMODULE>();
+
+            if res == 0 {
+                if required_buffer_size > buffer_size {
+                    module_array = Vec::<HMODULE>::with_capacity(module_num);
+                } else {
+                    return Err(ProcessReaderError::EnumProcessModulesError);
+                }
+            } else {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // SAFETY: module_array has been filled by K32EnumProcessModules()
+        unsafe {
+            module_array.set_len(module_num);
+        };
+
+        Ok(module_array)
+    }
+
+    fn get_module_name(&self, module: HMODULE) -> Option<String> {
+        let mut path: [u16; MAX_PATH as usize] = [0; MAX_PATH as usize];
+        let res = unsafe {
+            GetModuleBaseNameW(
+                self.process,
+                module,
+                (&mut path).as_mut_ptr(),
+                MAX_PATH.try_into().unwrap(),
+            )
+        };
+
+        if res == 0 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            let name = OsString::from_wide(&path[0..res as usize]);
+            let name = name.to_str()?;
+            Some(name.to_string())
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn get_module_info(&self, module: HMODULE) -> Option<MODULEINFO> {
+        let mut info: MaybeUninit<MODULEINFO> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
+        let res = unsafe {
+            K32GetModuleInformation(
+                self.process,
+                module,
+                info.as_mut_ptr(),
+                size_of::<MODULEINFO>() as u32,
+            )
+        };
+
+        if res == 0 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            let info = unsafe { info.assume_init() };
+            Some(info)
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn find_section_in_module(
+        &self,
+        section_name: &str,
+        module_address: usize,
+        size: usize,
+    ) -> Result<usize, ProcessReaderError> {
+        // We read only the first page from the module, this should be more than
+        // enough to read the header and section list. In the future we might do
+        // this incrementally but for now goblin requires an array to parse
+        // so we can't do it just yet.
+        let page_size = 4096;
+        if size < page_size {
+            // Don't try to read from the target module if it's too small
+            return Err(ProcessReaderError::ReadFromProcessError(
+                ReadError::ReadProcessMemoryError,
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let bytes = self.copy_array(module_address as _, 4096)?;
+        let header = goblin::pe::header::Header::parse(&bytes)?;
+
+        // Skip the PE header so we can parse the sections
+        let optional_header_offset = header.dos_header.pe_pointer as usize
+            + goblin::pe::header::SIZEOF_PE_MAGIC
+            + goblin::pe::header::SIZEOF_COFF_HEADER;
+        let offset =
+            &mut (optional_header_offset + header.coff_header.size_of_optional_header as usize);
+
+        let sections = header.coff_header.sections(&bytes, offset)?;
+
+        for section in sections {
+            if section.name.eq(section_name.as_bytes()) {
+                let address = module_address.checked_add(section.virtual_address as usize);
+                return address.ok_or(ProcessReaderError::InvalidAddress);
+            }
+        }
+
+        Err(ProcessReaderError::SectionNotFound)
+    }
+
+    pub fn copy_object_shallow<T>(&self, src: usize) -> Result<MaybeUninit<T>, ReadError> {
+        let mut object = MaybeUninit::<T>::uninit();
+        let res = unsafe {
+            ReadProcessMemory(
+                self.process,
+                src as _,
+                object.as_mut_ptr() as _,
+                size_of::<T>(),
+                null_mut(),
+            )
+        };
+
+        if res != FALSE {
+            Ok(object)
+        } else {
+            Err(ReadError::ReadProcessMemoryError)
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn copy_object<T>(&self, src: usize) -> Result<T, ReadError> {
+        let object = self.copy_object_shallow(src)?;
+        Ok(unsafe { object.assume_init() })
+    }
+
+    pub fn copy_array<T>(&self, src: usize, num: usize) -> Result<Vec<T>, ReadError> {
+        let num_of_bytes = num * size_of::<T>();
+        let mut array: Vec<T> = Vec::with_capacity(num);
+        let res = unsafe {
+            ReadProcessMemory(
+                self.process,
+                src as _,
+                array.as_mut_ptr() as _,
+                num_of_bytes,
+                null_mut(),
+            )
+        };
+
+        if res != FALSE {
+            unsafe {
+                array.set_len(num);
+            }
+
+            Ok(array)
+        } else {
+            Err(ReadError::ReadProcessMemoryError)
+        }
+    }
+}