CVE-2004-0906

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.6 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2004-12-31

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Mozilla (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231083
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235781
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653160
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11192
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17375
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11668