CVE-2021-23972: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2021-23972 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 26-02-2021PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. To mitigate this type of attack, Firefox will display a warning dialog; however, this warning dialog would not have been displayed if evil.com used a redirect that was cached by the browser. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.01%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
63%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.01% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu5 products
- firefox< 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | < 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla1 product
- firefox< 86 | < 86.0
2 vendors · 6 products
References
7 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536X Refsource MISCREPORTIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory