Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting Firefox package, versions [,152.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-17391685
  • published21 Jun 2026
  • disclosed16 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-12296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 152.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure via the Process Sandboxing component. An attacker can execute code outside of the intended sandboxed environment by exploiting insufficient isolation between sandboxed and non-sandboxed processes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1