CVE-2013-0798 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-0798?

CVE-2013-0798 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 3 Apr 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 on Android uses world-writable and world-readable permissions for the app_tmp installation directory in the local filesystem, which allows attackers to modify add-ons before installation via an application that leverages the time window during which app_tmp is used.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0798?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0798?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-0798 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-0798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• 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-99j5-vg32-77h3.