Insecure Permissions in XPInstall Installer: Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2004-0906 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

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