CVE-2021-38493

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13. 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 ESR < 78.14, Thunderbird < 78.14, and Firefox < 92.

CVSS v3.0 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-42/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-39/	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1723391%2C1724101%2C1724107	Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14	Third Party Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::

Information

Published : 2021-11-02 18:15

Updated : 2022-12-09 11:26

NVD link : CVE-2021-38493

Mitre link : CVE-2021-38493

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox
firefox_esr
thunderbird

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