{
  "cveId": "CVE-2021-38493",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38493",
  "summary": "CVE-2021-38493 is fixed in 11 products on 2 platforms, first by Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 91.0.3, released August 24, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "Mozilla Firefox ESR and 3 others: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13.",
  "description": "Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR \u003C 78.14, Thunderbird \u003C 78.14, and Firefox \u003C 92.",
  "published": "2021-09-08T09:48:00Z",
  "severity": "Important",
  "cvss": 8.8,
  "epss": 0.01245,
  "epssPercentile": 0.6948,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "vendorAdvisory": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38493",
  "fixes": [
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      "platform": "windows-app",
      "product": "Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US)",
      "fixedVersion": "102.0",
      "fix": "Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 102.0",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/windows-app/mozilla.firefox.esr-102.0",
      "released": "2022-06-23T00:00:00Z"
    },
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      "platform": "windows-app",
      "product": "Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US)",
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      "fix": "Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 91.0.3",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/windows-app/mozilla.thunderbird-91.0.3",
      "released": "2021-08-24T00:00:00Z"
    },
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      "product": "firefox",
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      "fix": "RHSA-2021:3497",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-3497",
      "released": "2021-09-13T00:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-firefox-92.0-build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1",
      "released": "2021-09-08T17:00:00Z"
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      "released": "2021-09-08T17:00:00Z"
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      "released": "2021-09-08T17:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-firefox-mozsymbols-92.0-build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1",
      "released": "2021-09-08T17:00:00Z"
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