CVE-2021-29948Race Condition in Mozilla Thunderbird

Severity
2.5LOWNVD
OSV7.4
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 24
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user is replacing the file. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages6 packages

debiandebian/thunderbird< thunderbird 1:78.10.0-1 (bookworm)
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified78.10
NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 78.10
Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:78.10.0-1+3
Ubuntumozilla/thunderbird< 1:78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-7h9q-985f-8xvm: Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user2022-05-24
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2021-06-25
OSV
CVE-2021-29948: Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user2021-06-24
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2021-06-22

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2021-06-25
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2021-06-22
Red Hat
Mozilla: Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures2021-04-19
Debian
CVE-2021-29948: thunderbird - Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might ...2021
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-14: CVE-2021-29948