Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.6 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.5, Thunderbird ESR 140.5, Firefox 145 and Thunderbird 145. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 140 — Mozilla

A use-after-free in FontFaceSet resulted in a potentially exploitable crash. An attacker who enumerated resources from the WebCompat extension could have obtained a persistent UUID that identified the browser, and persisted between containers and normal/private browsing mode, but not profiles. Th...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 133 — Mozilla

Certain WebGL operations on Apple silicon M series devices could have lead to an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption due to a flaw in Apple's GPU driver. This bug only affected the application on Apple M series hardware. Other platforms were unaffected. Malicious websites may have been able...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.16 — Mozilla

A compromised content process could have allowed for the arbitrary loading of cross-origin pages. An attacker could, via a specially crafted multipart response, execute arbitrary JavaScript under the resource://pdf.js origin. This could allow them to access cross-origin PDF content. This access i...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.13 — Mozilla

An error in the ECMA-262 specification relating to Async Generators could have resulted in a type confusion, potentially leading to memory corruption and an exploitable crash. Due to large allocation checks in Angle for GLSL shaders being too lenient an out-of-bounds access could occur when...

Timing side-channel in PKCS#1 v1.5 decryption depadding code — Mozilla

The NSS code used for checking PKCS1 v1.5 was leaking information useful in mounting Bleichenbacher-like attacks. Both the overall correctness of the padding as well as the length of the encrypted message was leaking through timing side-channel. By sending large number of attacker-selected...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.5 — Mozilla

A content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. By downloading a file with the .fileloc extension, a semi-privileged extension...

Firefox for Android addressbar can be removed after fullscreen mode — Mozilla

Security researcher Jordi Chancel reported when Firefox for Android exits fullscreen mode, it can be induce through script to not restore the addressbar when the window is redrawn in normal mode. This could allow an attacker to spoof the addressbar with their own content...

Use-after-free in MediaStream playback — Mozilla

Security researcher SkyLined reported a use-after-free issue in how audio is handled through the Web Audio API during MediaStream playback through interactions with the Web Audio API. This results in a potentially exploitable crash...

Bypass of XrayWrappers using XBL Scopes — Mozilla

Mozilla Developer Bobby Holley and Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 discovered a mechanism where XBL scopes can be be used to circumvent XrayWrappers from within the Chrome on unprivileged objects. This allows web content to potentially confuse privileged code and weaken invariants and can...

CSRF risk with plugins and 307 redirects — Mozilla

Independent security researcher Kuza55 and Microsoft security researcher Tom Gallagher reported that when plugin-initiated requests receive a 307 redirect response, the plugin is not notified and the request is forwarded to the new location. This is true even for cross-site redirects, so any cust...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.13/ 1.9.1.16) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange — Mozilla

Mozilla cryptographer Nelson Bolyard reported that the SSL implementation was permitting servers to use Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral mode DHE with too short of a minimum key length. DHE keys of such lengths are trivially breakable on modern hardware so SSL servers operating in this mode were providin...

SSL wildcard certificate matching IP addresses — Mozilla

Security researcher Richard Moore reported that when an SSL certificate was created with a common name containing a wildcard followed by a partial IP address a valid SSL connection could be established with a server whose IP address matched the wildcard range by browsing directly to the IP addres...

DOM attribute cloning remote code execution vulnerability — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the DOM attribute cloning routine where under certain circumstances an event attribute node can be deleted while another object still contains a reference to it. This reference could subsequently be accesse...

XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure — Mozilla

Marius Schilder of Google Security reported that when a XMLHttpRequest is made to a same-origin resource which 302 redirects to a resource in a different domain, the response from the cross-domain resource is readable by the site issuing the XHR. Cookies marked HttpOnly were not readable, but oth...

Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager — Mozilla

ling and wushi of team509, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative program, reported a flaw in part of Mozilla's DOM constructing code. This vulnerability can be exploited by modifying certain properties of a file input element before it has finished initializing. When the blur method of the...

Arbitrary file upload via originalTarget and DOM Range — Mozilla

Opera Software reported a vulnerability which allows malicious content to force the browser into uploading local files to the remote server. This could be used by an attacker to steal files from known locations on a victim's computer...

Signed JAR tampering — Mozilla

Security researchers Collin Jackson and Adam Barth reported a series of vulnerabilities which allow JavaScript to be injected into the context of signed JARs and executed under the context of the JAR's signer. This could allow an attacker to run JavaScript in a victim's browser with the privilege...

Web forgery overwrite with div overlay — Mozilla

Security researchers Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen demonstrated that, in cases where the entire contents of a page are enclosed in a with absolute positioning, a web forgery warning dialog won't be displayed unless the user switches tabs away-from then back-to the forgery page...

Directory traversal via chrome: URI — Mozilla

Gerry Eisenhaur reported the chrome: URI scheme improperly allowed directory traversal that could be used to load JavaScript, images, and stylesheets from local files in known locations. This traversal was possible only when the browser had installed add-ons which used "flat" packaging rather tha...

XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout — Mozilla

Mozilla contributor mozbugra4 demonstrated that the methods addEventListener and setTimeout could be used to inject script into another site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used to access or modify private or valuable information from that other site...

Privilege escalation using watch point — Mozilla

Shutdown demonstrated that it was possible to use a JavaScript watch to gain elevated privilege. This could be used to compromise the user's computer and install malware...

RSA Signature Forgery (variant) — Mozilla

MFSA 2006-60 reported that RSA digital signatures with a low exponent typically 3 could be forged. This flaw was corrected in the Mozilla Network Security Services NSS library version 3.11.3 used by Firefox 2.0 and current development versions of Mozilla clients...

JavaScript new Function race condition — Mozilla

H. D. Moore reported a testcase that was able to trigger a race condition where JavaScript garbage collection deleted a temporary variable still being used in the creation of a new Function object. The resulting use of a deleted object may be potentially exploitable to run native code provided by...

Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains — Mozilla

A malicious page can hijack native DOM methods on a document object in another domain, which will run the attacker's script when called by the victim page. This could be used to steal login cookies, password, or other sensitive data on the target page, or to perform actions on behalf of a logged-...

Security check of js_ValueToFunctionObject() can be circumvented — Mozilla

The security check in jsValueToFunctionObject can be bypassed by clever use of setTimeout and the new Firefox 1.5 array method ForEach. shutdown demonstrated how to leverage this into a privilege escalation vulnerability that would allow the installation of malware...

Changing position:relative to static corrupts memory — Mozilla

Dynamically changing the style of an element from position:relative to position:static can cause Gecko to operate on freed memory. It may be possible to exploit this in order to run arbitrary code...

Arbitrary code execution from Firefox sidebar panel — Mozilla

If a user bookmarked a malicious page as a Firefox sidebar panel that page could execute arbitrary programs by opening a privileged page and injecting javascript into it...

Plugins can be used to load privileged content — Mozilla

Plugins such as flash can be used to load privileged content into a frame. Once loaded various spoofs can be applied to get the user to interact with the privileged content. Michael Krax's "Fireflashing" example demonstrates that an attacker can open about:config in a frame, hide it with an opaci...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.16 — Mozilla

Note : We have changed how we publish advisories. We no longer roll all internally identified memory safety vulnerabilities into a single CVE and are now issuing an advisory for every individual bug. CVE-2026-92005: Use-after-free in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component Reporter...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.36 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.35, Firefox ESR 140.10 and Firefox 150. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 137.0.2 — Mozilla

Thunderbird processes the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header to handle attachments which can be hosted externally. When an email is opened, Thunderbird accesses the specified URL to determine file size, and navigates to it when the user clicks the attachment. Because the URL is not validate...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 133 — Mozilla

Accessing a non-secure HTTP site that uses a non-existent port may cause the SSL padlock icon in the location URL bar to, misleadingly, appear secure. Under certain circumstances, navigating to a webpage would result in the address missing from the location URL bar, making it unclear what the URL...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 115.4.1 — Mozilla

It was possible for certain browser prompts and dialogs to be activated or dismissed unintentionally by the user due to an insufficient activation-delay. An attacker could have created a malicious link using bidirectional characters to spoof the location in the address bar when visited. Drivers a...

Multiple Low Security Issues in Mozilla VPN — Mozilla

Multiple low security issues were discovered and fixed in a security audit of Mozilla VPN 2.x branch as part of a 3rd party security audit...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 27 — Mozilla

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:43.0 / rv:38.5) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of the...

XSS attack through intents on Firefox for Android — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that on Firefox for Android that it is possible to create a cross-site script XSS attack through the use of Android intents and fallback navigation. This issue is caused by improper sterilization of opened addresses sent to Firefox through intents...

Android intents can be used on Firefox for Android to open privileged files — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that on Firefox for Android, a search engine can be registered and used to launch Firefox through an Android intent. When Firefox for Android is launched, the URL can executed with Firefox's system privileges if the crash reporter is used. This allow...

Out-of-bounds read during 2D canvas display on Linux 16-bit color depth systems — Mozilla

Security researcher Francisco Alonso of the NowSecure Research Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read issue during 2D canvas rendering. This was due to an issue in the cairo graphics library when surfaces are created with 32-bit color depth but displayed on a 16-bi...

Crash when using shared memory in JavaScript — Mozilla

Security researcher Jukka Jylänki reported a crash that occurs because JavaScript, when using shared memory, does not properly gate access to Atomics or SharedArrayBuffer views in some contexts. This leads to a non-exploitable crash...

Remote HTML tag injection in Gaia System app — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported an issue with Gaia's System app which allows an attacker to inject HTML code into the System app's context via specially-crafted search links. The injection occurs when the user opens such malicious link in the browser and then presses the HOME butto...

Touch events are shared across iframes — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Wesley Johnston reported that when there are two or more iframes on the same HTML page, an iframe is able to see the touch events and their targets that occur within the other iframes on the page. If the iframes are from the same origin, they can also access the properties and...

Java security bypass from LiveConnect loaded via data: URL meta refresh — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that when a Java LiveConnect script was loaded via a data: URL which redirects via a meta refresh, then the resulting plugin object was created with the wrong security principal and thus received elevated privileges such as the abilities to read loca...

Scriptable plugin execution in SeaMonkey mail — Mozilla

Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported that scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, could be loaded and executed in SeaMonkey mail messages by embedding the content in an iframe inside the message. If a user were to reply to or forward such a message, malicious JavaScript embedded...

Memory safety fixes in liboggplay media library — Mozilla

Mozilla discovered several bugs in liboggplay which posed potential memory safety issues. The bugs which were fixed could potentially be used by an attacker to crash a victim's browser and execute arbitrary code on their computer...

Crash and remote code execution using watch and __defineSetter__ on SVG element — Mozilla

Security researcher PenPal reported a crash involving a SVG element on which a watch function and defineSetter function have been set for a particular property. The crash showed evidence of memory corruption and could potentially be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer...

Corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function — Mozilla

Firefox user zbyte reported a crash that we determined could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem. In certain cases after a return from a native function, such as escape, the Just-in-Time JIT compiler could get into a corrupt state. This could be exploited by an attacker to run...

XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks — Mozilla

Mozilla add-on developer and community member Wladimir Palant reported that content-loading policies were not checked before loading external script files into XUL documents. The severity of this problem would depend on the reasons behind the content policy check, which include privacy from "web...