CVE-2014-1566

Mozilla Firefox before 31.1 on Android does not properly restrict copying of local files onto the SD card during processing of file: URLs, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from the Firefox profile directory via a crafted application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1515.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2014-09-03

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-71.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69522
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030792
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050690
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01