Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-4140

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 22 December 2022

Published
22 December 2022
Modified
16 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0006 20.3th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-4140 is a critical-severity aka Blind XPath Injection (CWE-91) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 20.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

It was possible to construct specific XSLT markup that would be able to bypass an iframe sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.5, Firefox < 96, and Thunderbird < 91.5.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 96.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 91.5
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 91.5

Mitigating Controls

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

References