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CVE-2021-29966 json

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 88.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-16425

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 88. 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 < 89.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 89
  • firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 89.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  • firefox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 89.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29966

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

  • firefox Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +8 more 89.0-r0
  • librewolf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 89.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-29966

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox Arch Linux 89.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2018

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Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness

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