CVE-2021-38498

7.5 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.5) in mozilla. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

During process shutdown, a document could have caused a use-after-free of a languages service object, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2021-11-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox
mozilla:firefox_esr
mozilla:thunderbird

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1729642
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-43/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-45/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-47/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1729642

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