CVE-2021-36773

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

uBlock Origin before 1.36.2 and nMatrix before 4.4.9 support an arbitrary depth of parameter nesting for strict blocking, which allows crafted web sites to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion that can trigger memory consumption and a loss of all blocking functionality).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-36773

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-38

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.36.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1.37.0+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.37.0+dfsg-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed1.37.0+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1.37.0+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.37.0+dfsg-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.