CVE-2013-0798
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.