Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-0142
Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (20.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.9
- Mozilla — versions 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.6, 0.7, 0.8
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-02.html (Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17832 (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19823 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9543 (signature, vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100056 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html (vendor-advisory)