CVE-2021-29966

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox < 89 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 88. 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 < 89.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-09

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 64.6%
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 78.11.0 - 89.0
Published Jun 24, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026