Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-38492  

When delegating navigations to the operating system, Firefox before version 91.1 and Thunderbird before version 78.14 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.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

When delegating navigations to the operating system, Firefox before version 91.1 and Thunderbird before version 78.14 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.

AVG-2353 thunderbird 78.13.0-1 78.14.0-1 Medium Not affected

AVG-2351 firefox 91.0.2-1 92.0-1 Medium Not affected

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