Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting Firefox package, versions [,150.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-16298027
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed21 Apr 2026
  • creditb00rito

Introduced: 21 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-6777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 150.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure in the DNS resolution process. An attacker can cause unexpected behavior or compromise the integrity of DNS queries by sending specially crafted network requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1