11592 : Mozilla Firefox for MacOS Weak Permission Privilege Escalation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-11-10

Description

Firefox contains a flaw related to the installation on Mac OS. The issue is due to the program installing with world-writable permissions which may allow a local user to gain escalated privileges.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Attack Type Unknown
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0 Preview Release or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Mozilla Organization

Firefox

0.x

References

Related OSVDB ID: 11590 11591
Bugtraq ID: 11644
Secunia Advisory ID: 13144 13724
CVE ID: 2004-2228 (see also: NVD)
Vendor URL: http://www.mozilla.org/
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261527

Credit

Wolfgang Schwarz -
Gabriel Cabillón -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-07-21 | Disagree?

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