CVE-2019-9798 — Untrusted Search Path in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
7.4HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 26
Latest updateMay 24
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2019-9798: firefox - On Android systems, Firefox can load a library from APITRACE_LIB, which is writa...↗2019