Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,140.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-18302667
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-16377  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 140.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure in the PDF Viewer component. An attacker can bypass implemented security mitigations by exploiting weaknesses in the mitigation logic.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1