CVE-2021-29951

MEDIUM

Firefox < 87.0, Firefox ESR < 78.10.1, Thunderbird < 78.10.1 - Improper Privilege Management in Maintenance Service

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service granted SERVICE_START access to BUILTIN|Users which, in a domain network, grants normal remote users access to start or stop the service. This could be used to prevent the browser update service from operating (if an attacker spammed the 'Stop' command); but also exposed attack surface in the maintenance service. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems older than Win 10 build 1709. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.1, Firefox < 87, and Firefox ESR < 78.10.1.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-10/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-18/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-19/
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690062

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 67.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 87.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 78.10.1
mozilla/thunderbird < 78.10.1
Published Jun 24, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026