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CVE-2021-21354 Detail

Description

Pollbot is open source software which "frees its human masters from the toilsome task of polling for the state of things during the Firefox release process." In Pollbot before version 1.4.4 there is an open redirection vulnerability in the path of "https://pollbot.services.mozilla.com/". An attacker can redirect anyone to malicious sites. To Reproduce type in this URL: "https://pollbot.services.mozilla.com//evil.com/". Affected versions will redirect to that website when you inject a payload like "//evil.com/". This is fixed in version 1.4.4.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Hyperlink Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694684 Issue Tracking  Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Unvalidated_Redirects_and_Forwards_Cheat_Sheet.html Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/commit/6db74a4fcbff258c7cdf51a6ff0724fc10c485e5 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/pull/333 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/releases/tag/v1.4.4 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/security/advisories/GHSA-jhgx-wmq8-jc24 Exploit  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-21354
NVD Published Date:
03/08/2021
NVD Last Modified:
03/12/2021
Source:
GitHub, Inc.