Mozilla Firefox/Firefox ESR/Thunderbird Garbage Collector denial of service

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6.2	$0-$5k	0.00

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird (Web Browser) (the affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown part of the component Garbage Collector. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was presented 02/26/2021. The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-23960. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/05/2021). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

Productinfo

Type

Web Browser

Vendor

Mozilla

Name

License

open-source

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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NVD Base Score: 8.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: mozilla.org

Timelineinfo

01/13/2021 🔍
02/26/2021 +44 days 🔍
02/26/2021 +0 days 🔍
03/05/2021 +7 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: mozilla.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2021-23960 (🔍)

Entryinfo

Created: 02/26/2021 09:49
Updated: 03/05/2021 13:41
Changes: 02/26/2021 09:49 (39), 03/05/2021 13:39 (5), 03/05/2021 13:41 (18)
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