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FKIE_CVE-2021-23977

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-02-26 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:39

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
security@mozilla.org	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761	Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10	Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761	Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mozilla	firefox	*

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CVE-2021-23977 (GCVE-0-2021-23977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:14

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Malicious application could read sensitive data from Firefox for Android's application directories

Assigner

mozilla mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684761	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Mozilla	Firefox	Affected: < 86

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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