Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 153.4, and Firefox 157.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-100/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-101/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-103/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-97/ Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.8 · mozillaNVD modified 2026-10-13 16:12
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054767 Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-100/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-101/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-103/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-97/ Vendor Advisory