CVE-2021-38505
Mozilla: Windows 10 Cloud Clipboard may have recorded sensitive user data
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · November 2, 2021
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
Microsoft introduced a new feature in Windows 10 known as Cloud Clipboard which, if enabled, will record data copied to the clipboard to the cloud, and make it available on other computers in certain scenarios. Applications that wish to prevent copied data from being recorded in Cloud History must use specific clipboard formats; and Firefox before versions 94 and ESR 91.3 did not implement them. This could have caused sensitive data to be recorded to a user's Microsoft account. This bug only affects Firefox for Windows 10+ with Cloud Clipboard enabled. Other operating systems are unaffected.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-838 · Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context