Race Condition Affecting mozilla package, versions [,78.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378063
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-29948  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 78.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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 Scores

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