CVE-2021-29990

high

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. 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 < 91.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1544190%2C1716481%2C1717778%2C1719319%2C1722073

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-17

Updated: 2022-05-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High