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Red Hat: CVE-2021-24002: CVE-2021-24002 Mozilla: Arbitrary FTP command execution on FTP servers using an encoded URL (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-24002: CVE-2021-24002 Mozilla: Arbitrary FTP command execution on FTP servers using an encoded URL (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/26/2021
Created
04/27/2021
Added
04/27/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

When a user clicked on an FTP URL containing encoded newline characters (%0A and %0D), the newlines would have been interpreted as such and allowed arbitrary commands to be sent to the FTP server. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.10, Thunderbird < 78.10, and Firefox < 88.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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