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CVE-2021-38500

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-11-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92 and Firefox ESR 91.1. 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 Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
• Mozilla Firefox: before 93.0; from 91.0 before 91.2 — fixed in 91.2, 93.0
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 78.15 — fixed in 78.15
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 78.15; from 91.0 before 91.2 — fixed in 78.15, 91.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 91.2, 93.0; Mozilla Firefox ESR 78.15; Mozilla Thunderbird 78.15, 91.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1725854%2C1728321
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-43/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-44/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-45/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-46/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-47/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1725854%2C1728321
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-43/

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