Profile path leaks to Android system log

Profile path leaks to Android system log

Announced

February 4, 2014

Reporter

Roee Hay

Impact

Moderate

Products

Firefox

Fixed in

• Firefox 27

Description

Mozilla developer Roee Hay reported that Firefox for Android profile paths leak to the Android system log. When running on Android 4.2 or earlier, other applications are able to read these log files, leading to information disclosure from the user's profile directory. This issue was also independently reported by Mozilla developer Richard Newman.

References

• Fennec leaks profile path to logcat (CVE-2014-1484)