UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23961

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23961

    Published: 26 Jan 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-23961

    Summary:

    Details: Further techniques that built on the slipstream research combined with a malicious webpage could have exposed both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 85.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23961, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-03/#CVE-2021-23961, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4717-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4995-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4995-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23961

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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