CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-9798
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 66.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/ Vendor Advisory