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CVE-2021-29953

Published: 24 June 2021

A malicious webpage could have forced a Firefox for Android user into executing attacker-controlled JavaScript in the context of another domain, resulting in a Universal Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. *Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. Further details are being temporarily withheld to allow users an opportunity to update.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 88.0.1 and Firefox for Android < 88.1.3.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
alexmurray
As per the upstream advisory, this issue only affected Firefox for Android and so firefox on ubuntu is unaffected.

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable
(debian: Only affects Android)
xenial Not vulnerable

mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Does not exist

mozjs52
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Does not exist

mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Not vulnerable

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Does not exist

mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Does not exist

thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N