Mozilla Firefox for Android < 27.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8101

Synopsis

The remote mobile host was detected using an outdated version of Mozilla Firefox.

Description

Older versions of Mozilla Firefox contain multiple unspecified vulnerabilities that have since been fixed by the vendor. Versions of Firefox for Android older than 27.0 contain the following two vulnerabilities:

- Unauthorized information disclosure via profile path leaks to the Android system log, which is readable from other applications. (CVE-2014-1484)

- Issues related to differences in how JavaScript engines deal with native getters on the 'window' object. This can lead to a potential security check bypass issue. (CVE-2014-1481)

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 27 for Android (or later) from the Google Play app store.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 8101

Family: Web Clients

Published: 2/5/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_mobile

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1481, CVE-2014-1484

BID: 65323

Detections

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