Improper Privilege Management Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,140.14)[141.0,153.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-19427657
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed18 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-74941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 140.14, 153.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management via the CanvasWebGL component. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by exploiting improper handling of WebGL operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1