World-readable permissions on temporary files in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla versions before 0.9, 0.6, and 1.7.5 respectively

CVE-2005-0142 · LOW Severity

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

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.

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