CVE-2021-38501

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox <93 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92 and Firefox ESR 91.1. 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 < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 66.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 93.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 91.2
mozilla/thunderbird < 91.2
Published Nov 03, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026