Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird (opens in a new tab)
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- published11 Aug 2021
- disclosed17 Aug 2021
Introduced: 11 Aug 2021
CVE-2021-29987 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.
After requesting multiple permissions, and closing the first permission panel, subsequent permission panels will be displayed in a different position but still record a click in the default location, making it possible to trick a user into accepting a permission they did not want to. This bug only affects Firefox on Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91 and Thunderbird < 91.