CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-29971

Improper Preservation of Permissions

Published: Aug 05, 2021 | Modified: Aug 12, 2021
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

If a user had granted a permission to a webpage and saved that grant, any webpage running on the same host - irrespective of scheme or port - would be granted that permission. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 90.

Weakness

The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 90.0 (excluding)

References