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CVE-2004-0907

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Linux install .tar.gz archives for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8, create certain files with insecure permissions, which could allow local users to overwrite those files and execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Mozilla: 0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1 (+38)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+3)

References

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254303
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17373
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254303
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17373

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