CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0906

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• mozilla mozilla 0.8 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.2 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.2.1 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.3 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.4 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.4.1 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.5 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.6 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.7 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.8 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.9 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.35 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.48 • mozilla mozilla 1.0 • mozilla mozilla 1.0.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.0.2 • mozilla mozilla 1.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.2 • mozilla mozilla 1.2.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.3 • mozilla mozilla 1.3.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.4 • mozilla mozilla 1.4.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.4.2 • mozilla mozilla 1.4.4 • mozilla mozilla 1.5 • mozilla mozilla 1.5.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.6 • mozilla mozilla 1.7 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.2 • mozilla thunderbird 0.1 • mozilla thunderbird 0.2 • mozilla thunderbird 0.3 • mozilla thunderbird 0.4 • mozilla thunderbird 0.5 • mozilla thunderbird 0.6 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.1 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.2 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.3

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