World-writable and world-readable permissions in Mozilla Firefox for Android allow modification of add-ons during installation

CVE-2013-0798 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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