CVE-2019-9798

CVSS V2 Medium 5.8 CVSS V3 High 7.4
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-9798
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-04-26T17:29:02
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-08-24T17:37:01
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-426 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 66.0
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 4.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.4
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 5.2
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9798
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9798
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:18:43 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 20:09:21 2019-04-26T17:29Z 2019-04-26T17:29:02 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 20:09:21 2020-08-24T17:37:01 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 20:09:21 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated