Vulnerability in Mozilla
CVE-2004-0906
The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (35.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla — versions 0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17375 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/11192 (vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11668 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653160 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/12526/ (third-party-advisory)