Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-0578
Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory.
EPSS: 0.003 (21.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)