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ghsa-6c53-pfqv-mx96

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 16:44

Modified

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

Modified

2024-08-04 22:01

Severity ?

CWE

Library is loaded from world writable APITRACE_LIB location

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.

References

URL

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	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 66

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