Access Control Bypass Affecting Firefox package, versions [,151.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-16761518
  • published20 May 2026
  • disclosed19 May 2026
  • creditDaisuke Hatakeyama

Introduced: 19 May 2026

CVE-2026-8945  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 151.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass through the browser sandbox implementation. An attacker can execute code outside of the intended sandbox environment by exploiting insufficient isolation between the sandboxed process and the host system.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1