By causing a transition on a parent node by removing a CSS rule, an invalid property for a marker could have been applied, resulting in mem…

published 2021-03-31 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-10903

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits: 0; none known

By causing a transition on a parent node by removing a CSS rule, an invalid property for a marker could have been applied, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 87.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4

Mozilla Firefox 87

ubuntu opensuse alpine arch linux

firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 87.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 87.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
firefox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 87.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23983

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

firefox Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +8 more 87.0-r0
librewolf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 87.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-23983

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

firefox Arch Linux 87.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1728

Exploit prediction

0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2021-10/
vendor-advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=1692684
issue-tracking, permissions-required, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-23983
NVD CVE-2021-23983

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Summary