CVE-2021-38497

high
Published 2021-10-11 ยท Modified 2021-10-13
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Through use of reportValidity() and window.open(), a plain-text validation message could have been overlaid on another origin, leading to possible user confusion and spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 91.2.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 93.0-1
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”
rockylinux Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.