CVE-2019-9798 (GCVE-0-2019-9798)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-26 16:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
VLAI?
Summary
On Android systems, Firefox can load a library from APITRACE_LIB, which is writable by all users and applications. This could allow malicious third party applications to execute a man-in-the-middle attack if a malicious code was written to that location and loaded. *Note: This issue only affects Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 66.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Library is loaded from world writable APITRACE_LIB location
Assigner
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