CVE-2021-29960: Medium severity Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

Published Jun 1, 2021
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Updated

Firefox used to cache the last filename used for printing a file. When generating a filename for printing, Firefox usually suggests the web page title. The caching and suggestion techniques combined may have lead to the title of a website visited during private browsing mode being stored on disk.

Affected Software

17 affected componentsFixes available
Mozilla Firefox<89
89
Mozilla Firefox>=78.11.0<89.0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/firefox>=78.11.0<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/librewolf<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/librewolf<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/librewolf<89.0-r0
89.0-r0
alpine/librewolf<89.0-r0
89.0-r0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Firefox to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 89
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade alpine/firefox to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 89.0-r0
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade alpine/librewolf to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 89.0-r0

Event History

Jun 1, 2021
CVE Published
12:00 AM
Jun 24, 2021
CVE Published
via MITRE·01:16 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·01:16 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:15 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:15 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Is CVE-2021-29960 a local or remote vulnerability?

CVE-2021-29960 is considered a local vulnerability as it involves access to cached private browsing data.

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