Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-23960

High

Published: 26 February 2021

Published
26 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.3th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-23960 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Performing garbage collection on re-declared JavaScript variables resulted in a user-after-poison, and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 85, Thunderbird < 78.7, and Firefox ESR < 78.7.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 85.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 78.7
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 78.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References