Improper Privilege Management Affecting Firefox package, versions [,149.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-15762913
  • published24 Mar 2026
  • disclosed24 Mar 2026
  • creditSajeeb Lohani

Introduced: 24 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-4687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 149.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management via incorrect boundary conditions in the Telemetry component. An attacker can break out of the sandbox and execute code with elevated privileges by exploiting these boundary checks.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1