CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-29966
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 88. 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 < 89.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (>= 78.11.0 < 89.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1660307%2C1686154%2C1702948%2C1708124 Broken Link, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-09 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1660307%2C1686154%2C1702948%2C1708124 Broken Link, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-09 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory