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CVE-2013-0798

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 on Android uses world-writable and world-readable permissions for the app_tmp installation directory in the local filesystem, which allows attackers to modify add-ons before installation via an application that leverages the time window during which app_tmp is used.

Published

2013-04-03T11:56:21.257

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 19.0.2	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	19.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	19.0.1	Yes
Operating System	google	android	*	No

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)