Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21354

HighPublic PoC

Published: 08 March 2021

Published
08 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0084 75.3th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21354 is a high-severity Open Redirect (CWE-601) vulnerability in Mozilla Pollbot. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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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.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mozilla
pollbot
≤ 1.4.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

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