Improper Privilege Management Affecting MozillaThunderbird package, versions <78.10.2-8.27.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-MOZILLATHUNDERBIRD-2678141
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed4 Jun 2021

Introduced: 4 Jun 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 MozillaThunderbird to version 78.10.2-8.27.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaThunderbird package and not the MozillaThunderbird package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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

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