Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides — Mozilla

Additional checks were added to make sure Javascript eval and Script objects are run with the privileges of the context that created them, not the potentially elevated privilege of the context calling them in order to protect against an additional variant of MFSA 2005-41...

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 128.10 — Mozilla

Thunderbird's update mechanism allowed a medium-integrity user process to interfere with the SYSTEM-level updater by manipulating the file-locking behavior. By injecting code into the user-privileged process, an attacker could bypass intended access controls, allowing SYSTEM-level file operations...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 137 — Mozilla

JavaScript code running while transforming a document with the XSLTProcessor could lead to a use-after-free. An attacker could read 32 bits of values spilled onto the stack in a JIT compiled function. Leaking of file descriptors from the fork server to web content processes could allow for...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 134 — Mozilla

The Matrix specification demands homeservers to perform validation of the server-name and media-id components of MXC URIs with the intent to prevent path traversal. However, it is not mentioned that a similar check must also be performed on the client to prevent client-side path traversal...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 128.4 — Mozilla

A permission leak could have occurred from a trusted site to an untrusted site via embed or object elements. An attacker could have caused a use-after-free when accessibility was enabled, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. The origin of an external protocol handler prompt could have been...

Inferring keystrokes from motion data — Mozilla

University of California, Davis researchers Liang Cai and Hao Chen presented a paper at the 2011 USENIX HotSec workshop on inferring keystrokes from device motion data on mobile devices. Web pages can now receive data similar to the apps studied in that paper and likely present a similar risk. We...

Multiple location bar spoofing vulnerabilities — Mozilla

Google security researcher Michal Zalewski reported two methods for spoofing the contents of the location bar. The first method works by opening a new window containing a resource that responds with an HTTP 204 no content and then using the reference to the new window to insert HTML content into...

Same-origin bypass using canvas context — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukicevic reported that a canvas element can be used to read data from another site, violating the same-origin policy. The read restriction placed on a canvas element which has had cross-origin data rendered into it can be bypassed by retaining a reference to the canvas...

Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters — Mozilla

Andrej Andolsek reported that when Firefox receives a reply from a SOCKS5 proxy which contains a DNS name longer than 15 characters, the subsequent data stream in the response can become corrupted. There was no evidence of memory corruption, however, and the severity of the issue was determined t...

Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar — Mozilla

Security researchers Adam Barth and Collin Jackson reported that when a file: resource is loaded via the location bar it inherits the principal of the previously loaded document. This vulnerability can potentially give the newly loaded document additional privileges to access the contents of othe...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.5/1.8.1.19) — Mozilla

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

Information stealing via loadBindingDocument — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky reported that XBL bindings could be used to read data from other domains, a violation of the same-origin policy. The severity of this issue was determined to be moderate due to several mitigating factors:...

Arbitrary code execution via Flash Player dynamic module unloading — Mozilla

An anonymous security researcher reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that insufficient checks were being performed to test whether the Flash module was properly dynamically unloaded. The researcher demonstrated that a SWF file which dynamically unloads itself from an outside JavaScrip...

XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation via session restore — Mozilla

Security researcher David Bloom reported that the browser's session restore feature can be used to violate the same-origin policy and run JavaScript in the context of another site. Any otherwise unexploitable crash can be used to force the user into the session restore state...

Memory corruption with simultaneous events — Mozilla

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5 branch, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system...

Javascript prompt origin spoofing — Mozilla

Alerts and prompts created by scripts in web pages are presented with the generic title JavaScript Application which sometimes makes it difficult to know which site created them. A malicious page could attempt to cause a prompt to appear in front of a trusted site in an attempt to extract...

Heap overrun handling malicious news: URL — Mozilla

Maurycy Prodeus of iSEC Security Research reports a heap overrun in processing certain news: URLs. Thunderbird and the Mozilla Suite are affected; Firefox does not support the news: scheme...

javascript: Livefeed bookmarks can steal cookies — Mozilla

Earlier versions of Firefox allowed javascript: and data: URLs as Livefeed bookmarks. When they updated the URL would be run in the context of the current page and could be used to steal cookies or data displayed on the page...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 152 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 151 and Thunderbird 151. 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. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird ESR 140.11,...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 150.0.2 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.10.1 and Thunderbird 150.0.1. 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. Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 150.0.1. Some of...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.10 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird ESR 140.9, Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149. 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. Memory safety...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 148.0.2 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 148.0.2. 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 Firefox 148 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 147 and Thunderbird 147. 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. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.7, Thunderbird ESR 140.7,...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 141 — Mozilla

Sandboxed iframes on webpages could potentially allow downloads to the device, bypassing the expected sandbox restrictions declared on the parent page The URL scheme used by Firefox to facilitate searching of text queries could incorrectly allow attackers to open arbitrary website URLs or interna...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 136 — Mozilla

Certain crafted MIME email messages that claimed to contain an encrypted OpenPGP message, which instead contained an OpenPGP signed message, were wrongly shown as being encrypted. When requesting an OpenPGP key from a WKD server, an incorrect padding size was used and a network observer could hav...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128.5 — 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. An attacker could cause a select...

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 Focus for iOS 122 — Mozilla

An attacker could have executed unauthorized scripts on top origin sites using a JavaScript URI when opening an external URL with a custom Firefox scheme and a timeout race condition...

Non-whitelisted site can trigger xpinstall — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that it was possible for a non-whitelisted site to trigger an install dialog for add-ons and themes...

Form history vulnerable to stealing — Mozilla

Security researcher Paul Stone reported that a user's form history, both from web content as well as the smart location bar, was vulnerable to theft. A malicious web page could synthesize events such as mouse focus and key presses on behalf of the victim and trick the browser into auto-filling th...

User tracking via XUL persist attribute — Mozilla

Security researcher Hish reported that the persist attribute in XUL elements can be used to store cookie-like information on a user's computer which could later be read by a website. This creates a privacy issue for users who have a non-standard cookie preference and wish to prevent sites from...

Arbitrary socket connections with Java LiveConnect on Mac OS X — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported a vulnerability in the way Mozilla indicates the origin of a document to the Java Embedding Plugin JEP that ships with Firefox on Mac OS X. This vulnerability could allow a malicious Java applet to bypass the same-origin policy and create arbitrary...

Overwrite arbitrary files downloading .lnk twice — Mozilla

If a windows user can be convinced to download a .lnk file twice to the same location an attacker can overwrite essentially delete arbitrary files on the user's machine: the file referenced by the first .lnk will be overwritten by the second download rather than replacing the .lnk itself. On some...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 155.1 — Mozilla

A malicious webpage could repeatedly trigger external URL schemes, causing system prompts or external application launches. This could make Firefox for iOS temporarily unusable until the page is closed...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for Android 153.0.3 — Mozilla

CVE-2026-18809: Information disclosure in Firefox for Android and Firefox Focus for Android Reporter The Mozilla Fuzzing Team Impact high References Bug 2055683...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 150.0.1 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.35.0, Firefox ESR 140.10.0 and Firefox 150.0.0. 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. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.8 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.7, Thunderbird ESR 140.7, Firefox 147 and Thunderbird 147. 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. Memory safety bugs present in...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 146.0.1 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 146. 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 Firefox ESR 115.30 — Mozilla

CVE-2025-13012: Race condition in the Graphics component Reporter Irvan Kurniawan Impact high References Bug 1991458 CVE-2025-13013: Mitigation bypass in the DOM: Core & HTML component Reporter Masato Kinugawa Impact moderate References Bug 1991945 CVE-2025-13014: Use-after-free in the Audio/Vide...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 141 — Mozilla

On 64-bit platforms IonMonkey-JIT only wrote 32 bits of the 64-bit return value space on the stack. Baseline-JIT, however, read the entire 64 bits. On arm64, a WASM brtable instruction with a lot of entries could lead to the label being too far from the instruction causing truncation and incorrec...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 128.11 — Mozilla

A double-free could have occurred in vpxcodecencinitmulti after a failed allocation when initializing the encoder for WebRTC. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. Error handling for script execution was incorrectly isolated from web content, which could ha...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.23.1 — Mozilla

An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript Promise object. An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript object by confusing array index sizes...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 137 — Mozilla

JavaScript code running while transforming a document with the XSLTProcessor could lead to a use-after-free. An attacker could read 32 bits of values spilled onto the stack in a JIT compiled function. Leaking of file descriptors from the fork server to web content processes could allow for...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128.4 — Mozilla

A permission leak could have occurred from a trusted site to an untrusted site via embed or object elements. An attacker could have caused a use-after-free when accessibility was enabled, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. The origin of an external protocol handler prompt could have been...

Cookie isolation error — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher David Chan reported that cookies set for example.com. note the trailing dot and example.com were treated as interchangeable. This is a violation of same-origin conventions and could potentially lead to leakage of cookie data to the wrong party...

Escalation of privilege through Java Embedding Plugin — Mozilla

David Remahl of Apple Product Security reported that the Java Embedding Plugin JEP shipped with the Mac OS X versions of Firefox could be exploited to obtain elevated access to resources on a user's system...

Use-after-free error with nsDOMAttribute MutationObserver — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that a nsDOMAttribute node can be modified without informing the iterator object responsible for various DOM traversals. This flaw could lead to a inconsistent state where the iterator points to an object it believes i...

Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Daniel Holbert reported that the fix to the plugin parameter array crash that was fixed in Firefox 3.6.7 caused a crash showing signs of memory corruption. In certain circumstances, properties in the plugin instance's parameter array could be freed prematurely leaving a dangling...

focus() behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes — Mozilla

Google security researcher Michal Zalewski reported that focus could be used to change a user's cursor focus while they are typing, potentially directing their keyboard input to an unintended location. This behavior was also present across origins when content from one domain was embedded within...