Android Firefox < 66: Man-in-the-Middle Attack via APITRACE_LIB Vulnerability

Android Firefox < 66: Man-in-the-Middle Attack via APITRACE_LIB Vulnerability

CVE-2019-9798 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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.

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