Firefox for Android suffered from a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to read sensitive data from application directories. Note: This issue is only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.
Weakness
The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Mozilla | * | 86.0 (excluding) |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs38 | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Mozjs38 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Mozjs38 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs60 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/jammy | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | hirsute | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/