VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-29984
This led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.39%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Instruction reordering resulted in a sequence of instructions that would cause an object to be incorrectly considered during garbage collection. This led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.39% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720031Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720031Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.