CVE-2005-0142

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-05-02

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Mozilla (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-02.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251297
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17832
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100056
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9543