Vulnerability in Google Android

CVE-2013-0798

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.

EPSS: 0.010 (59.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Google Android
Mozilla Firefox — versions 19.0, 19.0.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)