Improper Privilege Management Affecting Firefox package, versions [,157)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-20826651
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed11 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-100824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 157 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management via the Places component. An attacker can gain higher-level privileges by exploiting improper access controls.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1