PT-2013-2625 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Shuichiro Suzuki · Published 2013-04-03 · Updated 2013-06-05 · CVE-2013-0798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 20.0 on Android

Description The issue allows attackers to modify add-ons before installation by leveraging the time window during which the app tmp directory is used, due to world-writable and world-readable permissions for the app tmp installation directory in the local filesystem.

Recommendations For versions prior to 20.0 on Android, update to version 20.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0798

Affected Products

Firefox

Suse

References · 4

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0798 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832 · Note