CVE-2021-23977

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: February 26, 2021 at 02:13 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:39 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%

Description

Firefox for Android suffered from a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to read sensitive data from application directories. Note: This issue is only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 86v < 86.0
Affected range stops below 86, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 86.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-367

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