CVE-2021-23979

HIGH

Firefox < 86.0 - Out-of-bounds Write

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85. 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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 56.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 86.0
Published Feb 26, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026