CVE-2021-38504
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.7%
exploitation probability
1.7%top 24% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
When interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with webkitdirectory set, a use-after-free could have resulted, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 94, Thunderbird < 91.3, and Firefox ESR < 91.3.
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730156https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-48/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-49/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/