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CVE-2021-29948 (GCVE-0-2021-29948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-24 13:19 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:18
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 78.10 (custom)
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