CVE-2005-0142 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0142?

CVE-2005-0142 is a low-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 29 Jan 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0142?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0142?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2005-0142 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0142 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q449-wmj9-fjj4.