CVE-2021-29970

Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 13, 2021

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A malicious webpage could have triggered a use-after-free, memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug could only be triggered when accessibility was enabled.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.12, Firefox ESR < 78.12, and Firefox < 90.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-416 · Use After Free