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CVE-2021-23958
The browser could have been confused into transferring a screen sharing state into another tab, which would leak unintended information.…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.88%
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- mozilla
Description
The browser could have been confused into transferring a screen sharing state into another tab, which would leak unintended information. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 85.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.88% · top 41% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Screen sharing permission leaked across tabs
- CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-668 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (2)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-03/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642747 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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