CVE-2026-117862: critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Networking component
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.2%
Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Networking component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 159, Firefox ESR 115.44, Firefox ESR 153.6, Thunderbird 159, and Thunderbird 153.6.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054644https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-118/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-119/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-120/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/