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Vulnerability details: VCID-ggf5-yptt-hkdb
Vulnerability ID VCID-ggf5-yptt-hkdb
Aliases CVE-2021-23964
Summary Mozilla developers Alexis Beingessner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, André Bargull, Jason Kratzer, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Steve Fink, Byron Campen reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6. 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
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
cvssv3 8.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-23964.json
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
epss 0.0052 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23964
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23964
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1492
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1496
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-03
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-04
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-05
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-23964.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-23964
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1662507%2C1666285%2C1673526%2C1674278%2C1674835%2C1675097%2C1675844%2C1675868%2C1677590%2C1677888%2C1680410%2C1681268%2C1682068%2C1682938%2C1683736%2C1685260%2C1685925
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15685
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16044
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26976
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23953
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23954
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23960
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23964
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-03/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-04/
1920651 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1920651
ASA-202102-1 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-1
ASA-202102-2 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-2
AVG-1492 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1492
AVG-1496 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1496
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2021-23964 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23964
mfsa2021-03 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-03
mfsa2021-04 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-04
mfsa2021-05 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-05
RHSA-2021:0285 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0285
RHSA-2021:0288 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0288
RHSA-2021:0289 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0289
RHSA-2021:0290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0290
RHSA-2021:0297 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0297
RHSA-2021:0298 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0298
RHSA-2021:0299 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0299
RHSA-2021:0397 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0397
USN-4717-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4717-1/
USN-4736-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4736-1/
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-2021-23964.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

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

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low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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

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none

required

unchanged

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low

none

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23964
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

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none

none

partial

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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-2021-23964
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 0.65841
EPSS Score 0.0052
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:09:50.282625+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2021/mfsa2021-04.yml 37.0.0