Medium severity · published Jun 24, 2021
CVE-2021-29951
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
6.5
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 87.0 · source: NVD
FE
Firefox Esr · Mozilla
before 78.10.1 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 78.10.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29951
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29951
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690062
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-10/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-18/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-19/
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