CVE-2021-23978 Information

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86 Thunderbird < 78.8 and Firefox ESR < 78.8.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=786797%2C1682928%2C1687391%2C1687597 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00000.html https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4866 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-09 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8