CVE-2021-23987

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    CVE-2021-23987

    Published: 31 Mar 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8. 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 ESR < 78.9, Firefox < 87, and Thunderbird < 78.9.

    References: https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-11/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-12/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-10/, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1513519%2C1683439%2C1690169%2C1690718

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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