CVE-2021-38498

2021-11-0300:03:15

mozilla

www.cve.org

process shutdown

document

use-after-free

vulnerability

firefox

thunderbird

firefox esr

AI Score

8.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

66.5%

JSON

During process shutdown, a document could have caused a use-after-free of a languages service object, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Firefox",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "93",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Thunderbird",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "91.2",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox ESR",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "91.2",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]