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GHSA-6C53-PFQV-MX96

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 16:44 – Updated: 2022-05-24 16:44

Details

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.

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CVE-2019-9798 (GCVE-0-2019-9798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-26 16:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01

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

mozilla

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Affected: unspecified , < 66 (custom)

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-6C53-PFQV-MX96

CVE-2019-9798 (GCVE-0-2019-9798)

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