Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-23997 - Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-681

Summary

Due to unexpected data type conversions, a use-after-free could have occurred when interacting with the font cache. We presume that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 88.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
705