CVE-2021-29988

HIGH

Firefox <91 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Firefox incorrectly treated an inline list-item element as a block element, resulting in an out of bounds read or memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1717922
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0062
EPSS Percentile 70.1%
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-125 CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 91.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 78.13.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 78.13.0
Published Aug 17, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026