Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting mozilla package, versions [,78.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378563
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-29950  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 78.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. Thunderbird unprotects a secret OpenPGP key prior to using it for a decryption, signing or key import task. If the task runs into a failure, the secret key may remain in memory in its unprotected state. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.8.1.

CVSS Scores

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