Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting Firefox package, versions [,153.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-18302712
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-16370  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 153.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure due to improper enforcement of security mitigations in the Networking component. An attacker can bypass intended security restrictions by exploiting weaknesses in the implementation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1