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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.

Published: Apr 3, 2013
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
CVE: CVE-2013-0798
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-264

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
mozilla / firefox	-	19.0.2.x
mozilla / firefox	19.0	19.0.x
mozilla / firefox	19.0.1	19.0.1.x

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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