Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component (Mozilla Firefox)

CVE-2026-74955
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.41 % · percentile 36 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mozilla
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Mozilla · Firefoxunaffected 153.1 ≤ 153.* ; unaffected 154 ≤ *
Mozilla · Thunderbirdunaffected 153.1 ≤ 153.* ; unaffected 154 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD