Improper Privilege Management Affecting thunderbird package, versions <91.3.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-THUNDERBIRD-8489796
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed24 Jun 2021

Introduced: 24 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-29951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 thunderbird to version 91.3.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Mozilla Maintenance Service granted SERVICE_START access to BUILTIN|Users which, in a domain network, grants normal remote users access to start or stop the service. This could be used to prevent the browser update service from operating (if an attacker spammed the 'Stop' command); but also exposed attack surface in the maintenance service. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems older than Win 10 build 1709. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.1, Firefox < 87, and Firefox ESR < 78.10.1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1