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Vulnerability details: VCID-6gkn-bwdh-aaaj
Vulnerability ID VCID-6gkn-bwdh-aaaj
Aliases CVE-2021-23978
Summary Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7. 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, Thunderbird < 78.8, and Firefox ESR < 78.8.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2021/CVE-2021-23978.html
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0655
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0656
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0657
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0658
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0659
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0660
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0661
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0662
cvssv3 8.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-23978.json
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generic_textual Medium https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=786797%2C1682928%2C1687391%2C1687597
rhbs high https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932112
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23968
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23969
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23973
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23978
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
cvssv3 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1599
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1601
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4756-1
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4936-1
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/#CVE-2021-23978
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08/#CVE-2021-23978
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/#CVE-2021-23978
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08/
generic_textual Medium https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2021/CVE-2021-23978.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-23978.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23978
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=786797%2C1682928%2C1687391%2C1687597
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23968
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23969
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23973
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23978
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00000.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-09
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4756-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4936-1
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4866
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/#CVE-2021-23978
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08/#CVE-2021-23978
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/#CVE-2021-23978
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/
1932112 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932112
AVG-1599 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1599
AVG-1601 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1601
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2021-23978 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
mfsa2021-07 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07
mfsa2021-08 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-08
mfsa2021-09 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09
RHSA-2021:0655 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0655
RHSA-2021:0656 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0656
RHSA-2021:0657 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0657
RHSA-2021:0658 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0658
RHSA-2021:0659 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0659
RHSA-2021:0660 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0660
RHSA-2021:0661 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0661
RHSA-2021:0662 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0662
USN-4756-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4756-1/
USN-4936-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4936-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-23978.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

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high

low

none

high

low

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high

low

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23978
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.74777
EPSS Score 0.00423
Published At Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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