Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2021-43538

By misusing a race in our notification code, an attacker could have forcefully hidden the notification for pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access, which could have been used for spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Firefox < 95.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.012 (63.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-43538?
CVE-2021-43538 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2021-12-08.
How severe is CVE-2021-43538?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.