CVE-2021-23979 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85. 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00374.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1663222%2C1666607%2C1672120%2C1678463%2C1678927%2C1679560%2C1681297%2C1681684%2C1683490%2C1684377%2C1684902
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-02-26T15:28:35

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:10.038Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-23979

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-26T16:15:12.810

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:08.643

Link: CVE-2021-23979

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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