CVE-2004-0907

Mozilla Firefox <Preview Release - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Linux install .tar.gz archives for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8, create certain files with insecure permissions, which could allow local users to overwrite those files and execute arbitrary code.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17373
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml

Scores

EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 34.3%

Details

Status published
Products (37)
mozilla/mozilla 0.8
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.2
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.2.1
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.3
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.4
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.4.1
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.5
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.6
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.7
mozilla/mozilla 0.9.8
... and 27 more
Published Dec 31, 2004
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026