CVE-2021-23988

HIGH

Firefox < 87.0 - Out-of-bounds Write

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86. 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 < 87.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684994%2C1686653

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 55.4%
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 < 87.0
Published Mar 31, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026