CVE-2021-29976
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in code shared between Firefox and Thunderbird. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort
02 Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in code shared between Firefox and Thunderbird. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 68.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-08-05 19:46Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 22:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-04-01
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3b9cb4e3ab71c1c248040af5fbfe3d2e0d5a3017cb3c601c1d31d61aea0d8f66
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-28/
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-30/
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-29/
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1700895%2C1703334%2C1706910%2C1711576%2C1714391
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202202-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202208-14https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- firefox Fixed in 90.0-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 78.12.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- firefox-esr Fixed in 78.12.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:78.12.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- firefox-esr Fixed in 78.12.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:78.12.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- firefox-esr Fixed in 78.12.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:78.12.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 90.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- mozjs38 No fix yet
- mozjs52 No fix yet
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:78.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 90.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs52 No fix yet
- mozjs68 No fix yet
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:78.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- mozjs78 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.