CVE-2021-29986: mozilla firefox Race Condition
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2021-29986 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Race Condition vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 37 · Related 23Timeline
- 17-08-2021PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. *Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.26%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
69%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.26% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu6 products
- firefox< 91.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 91.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla3 products
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 91 | < 91.0
- firefox_esr≥ unspecified, < 78.13 | < 78.13.0
- thunderbird≥ unspecified, < 78.13 | ≥ unspecified, < 91 | < 78.13.0
Debian2 products
- firefox-esr< 78.13.0esr-1
- thunderbird< 1:78.13.0-1
3 vendors · 11 products
