Improper Privilege Management Affecting Firefox package, versions [,158)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-20882985
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109704  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 158 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management through the Application Update process. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by exploiting insufficient validation during the update mechanism.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1