CVE-2005-0578 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0578?

CVE-2005-0578 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 27 Feb 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0578?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0578?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2005-0578 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0578 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7352-x97x-grpg.