SB2021022317 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox for Android
Published: February 23, 2021
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23977)
The vulnerability allows a malicious application to read sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition. A local application can read sensitive data from Firefox directories.
2) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23976)
The vulnerability allows a local application to escalate privileges on the system.
When accepting a malicious intent from other installed apps, Firefox for Android accepted manifests from arbitrary file paths and allowed declaring webapp manifests for other origins. This could be used to gain fullscreen access for UI spoofing and could also lead to cross-origin attacks on targeted websites.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.