Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting Firefox package, versions [,158)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-20882662
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109760  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 158 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure through the Networking: HTTP component. An attacker can bypass implemented mitigations by crafting specific HTTP requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1