CVE-2021-29990 Information

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. 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 < 91.

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=1544190%2C1716481%2C1717778%2C1719319%2C1722073 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

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