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Alpine: mozjs78: security update to 78.14.0-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405625

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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 < 78.14, Thunderbird < 78.14,
 and Firefox < 92. (CVE-2021-38493)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-38493

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405625

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 3/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38493

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38493