CVE-2021-38492

Name
CVE-2021-38492
Description
When delegating navigations to the operating system, Firefox would accept the `mk` scheme which might allow attackers to launch pages and execute scripts in Internet Explorer in unprivileged mode. *This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 92, Thunderbird < 91.1, Thunderbird < 78.14, Firefox ESR < 78.14, and Firefox ESR < 91.1.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-41/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-40/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-42/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-39/
MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1721107

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