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CVE-2013-0798

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 19.0.2; 19.0, 19.0.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-33.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844832

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