CVE-2021-29948 (GCVE-0-2021-29948)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-24 13:19 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
CWE
- Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1692899 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Thunderbird |
Affected:
unspecified , < 78.10
(custom)
|
guessed |
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