CVE-2021-23977 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Firefox for Android suffered from a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to read sensitive data from application directories. Note: This issue is only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00372.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-10898	Firefox for Android suffered from a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to read sensitive data from application directories. Note: This issue is only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-02-26T02:13:06

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:10.022Z

Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-23977

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-26T03:15:14.213

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:08.380

Link: CVE-2021-23977

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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