CVE-2021-4127

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-12-22. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2021-34001 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An out of date graphics library (Angle) likely contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9 and Firefox ESR < 78.9.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.9% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
61st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 22, 2022

Last Modified

April 16, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.9 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-12/
Web page

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.9 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-11/
Web page

1691547 - (CVE-2021-4127) Angle Security Backports for ESR-78

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691547

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatfirefox-0:78.9.0-1.el8_22021-03-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:78.9.0-3.el8_22021-03-25redhat
redhatfirefox-0:78.9.0-1.el7_92021-03-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:78.9.0-3.el7_92021-03-25redhat
redhatfirefox-0:78.9.0-1.el8_32021-03-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:78.9.0-3.el8_32021-03-25redhat
redhatfirefox-0:78.9.0-1.el8_12021-03-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:78.9.0-3.el8_12021-03-25redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(10 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr60.7.2esr-1 ... 78.9.0esr-1~deb9u1 (93 versions)
  • every version up to 78.9.0esr-1~deb10u1: fixed in 78.9.0esr-1~deb10u1
—
thunderbird1:60.7.2-1 ... 1:78.9.0-1~deb9u1 (112 versions)
  • every version up to 1:78.9.0-1~deb10u1: fixed in 1:78.9.0-1~deb10u1
—
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 78.9.0esr-1: fixed in 78.9.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:78.9.0-1: fixed in 1:78.9.0-1
—
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 78.9.0esr-1: fixed in 78.9.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:78.9.0-1: fixed in 1:78.9.0-1
—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 78.9.0esr-1: fixed in 78.9.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:78.9.0-1: fixed in 1:78.9.0-1
—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 78.9.0esr-1: fixed in 78.9.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:78.9.0-1: fixed in 1:78.9.0-1
—

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 97× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 271 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 172 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 61st percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 03:10 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 03:10 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 03:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 61st percentile
  6. 2026-11-01 05:00 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-11-01 05:00 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-01 05:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 61st percentile
  10. 2026-10-31 06:49 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-31 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-31 06:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-30 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 61st percentile
  14. 2026-10-30 08:38 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-30 08:38 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-30 08:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-29 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  18. 2026-10-29 10:28 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-29 10:28 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-29 10:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  22. 2026-10-28 12:18 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-28 12:18 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-28 12:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-27 14:08 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 14:08 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 14:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 15:22 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-26 15:22 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-26 15:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 16:21 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 16:21 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-25 16:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-24 18:11 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 18:11 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-24 18:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  16. 2026-10-23 20:00 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-23 20:00 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-23 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  20. 2026-10-22 21:48 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-22 21:48 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-22 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  24. 2026-10-21 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-21 23:38 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-21 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  28. 2026-10-21 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-21 01:26 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-21 01:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  32. 2026-10-20 03:15 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-20 03:15 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-20 03:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  35. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  36. 2026-10-19 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-19 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-19 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  40. 2026-10-18 05:24 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-18 05:24 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-18 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  44. 2026-10-17 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-17 07:09 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-17 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  48. 2026-10-16 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-16 08:51 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-16 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  51. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  52. 2026-10-15 08:04 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-10-15 08:04 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-15 08:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  56. 2026-10-14 04:04 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-10-14 04:04 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-14 04:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  59. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  60. 2026-10-12 23:54 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-12 23:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7wp9-fj5q-c4jc · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-12 19:09 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  64. 2026-10-11 23:35 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-4127?
CVE-2021-4127 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 22, 2022. An out of date graphics library (Angle) likely contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9 and Firefox ESR < 78.9.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-4127 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-4127 was published on December 22, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 16, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-4127 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-4127 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (61st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-4127?
CVE-2021-4127 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-4127?
A fix for CVE-2021-4127 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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