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Mozilla Firefox EUVDEUVD-2026-60670

| CVE-2026-74976 MEDIUM
Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (Type Confusion) (CWE-843)
2026-08-18 mozilla GHSA-8j76-jchm-gqf4
Medium
Disputed · 6.5 Vendor: mozilla
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Lure victim to malicious webpage
  2. Delivery
    Deliver crafted JavaScript payload
  3. Exploit
    Trigger JIT miscompilation in SpiderMonkey
  4. Execution
    Read heap memory via type-confused access
  5. Impact
    Exfiltrate sensitive browser memory contents

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Type safety enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution

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Exploitation Conditions

The victim must use an unpatched version of Mozilla Firefox (any release prior to Firefox 154, ESR 140.14, or ESR 153.1) and must visit or be redirected to attacker-controlled web content that triggers the specific JIT miscompilation path. JavaScript must be enabled (the default for all Firefox configurations). No authentication, special privileges, or non-default configuration settings are required on the attacker's side. Exploitation is limited by the UI:R requirement - the victim must actively navigate to the malicious content; the browser does not autonomously execute the payload. The vulnerability produces information disclosure only (C:H, I:N, A:N), meaning an attacker cannot achieve code execution via this flaw alone based on available data.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N scores 6.5 (Medium), reflecting a network-reachable flaw requiring only a single user interaction - visiting a malicious page - with no authentication prerequisite and high confidentiality impact. The scope is unchanged (S:U) and there is no integrity or availability impact, confirming this is a memory-read primitive rather than full remote code execution. No EPSS score was supplied in the intelligence data, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified numerically; however, the low attack complexity and no-privilege requirement make opportunistic exploitation plausible once a reliable trigger is developed. No KEV listing and no public POC are present, indicating exploitation has not yet been observed at scale. The UI:R gating is a meaningful limiter - passive drive-by exploitation requires the victim to navigate to attacker-controlled content, which browser security teams typically treat as a realistic threat model for browser engine bugs. With patches already released across three Firefox channels, the residual risk is concentrated in unpatched deployments, and organizations running Firefox ESR in managed environments should prioritize this update.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts a malicious webpage containing crafted JavaScript designed to trigger the JIT miscompilation path in SpiderMonkey. When a victim navigates to the page in an unpatched Firefox browser, the JIT compiler processes the crafted script, accesses memory using an incompatible type, and the attacker's script reads out-of-bounds heap memory - potentially capturing sensitive data such as credentials, cryptographic material, or session tokens held in the browser process. No public POC is known at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity (AC:L) in the CVSS vector suggests the trigger is not highly constrained.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 19, 2026

JIT miscompilation in Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine exposes sensitive memory to remote attackers via crafted web content. The CWE-843 (type confusion) root cause means the JIT compiler generates native code that accesses a JavaScript value as the wrong type, resulting in a high-confidentiality information disclosure. Vendor-released patches are available in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, and Firefox ESR 153.1; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

The primary fix is to upgrade to Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, or Firefox ESR 153.1, as confirmed by Mozilla's security advisories (https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-74/ and associated MFSAs). Organizations using managed Firefox ESR deployments should prioritize the ESR track update appropriate to their channel. If immediate patching is not feasible, a compensating control is to disable JavaScript execution via enterprise policy (using the DisableJavaScript policy key in Firefox's enterprise policy JSON); this eliminates the JIT attack surface but will break the majority of modern web applications and is not suitable as a long-term measure. Alternatively, restricting users to trusted internal sites via URL allowlisting (ContentBlockingCategoryPreferences or proxy-level filtering) reduces exposure to malicious external content but does not eliminate risk from compromised trusted sites. The Bugzilla issue tracking this flaw is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952164.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

CWE-843 ('Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type') describes a type confusion flaw in which a program accesses a memory resource using a type incompatible with its actual allocation. In Firefox's JIT compilation pipeline (part of the SpiderMonkey engine), hot JavaScript code paths are compiled to native machine code for performance. A miscompilation occurs when the JIT incorrectly resolves the type of a JavaScript value, generating native instructions that read memory as a different type than intended. This can bypass type-safety invariants and expose adjacent heap memory. The affected CPE (cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) covers all Firefox versions prior to the fixed releases. The tags 'Memory Corruption' and 'Information Disclosure' are consistent with a type-confusion read primitive in a JIT context.

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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Low–High)
Vendor (mozilla) PRIMARY 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Network-delivered via webpage (AV:N), no special configuration required (AC:L), no privileges needed (PR:N), single user interaction to visit page (UI:R), high confidentiality from memory read, no integrity or availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE HIGH
Red Hat 3.4 LOW

vuln.today treats the vendor’s rating as authoritative. A higher third-party CVSS (e.g. CISA-ADP) is shown for transparency but does not drive the headline severity.

CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
CVSS changed
Aug 19, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
6.5 (MEDIUM)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
MEDIUM 6.5

DescriptionCVE.org

JIT miscompilation in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, and Firefox ESR 153.1.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 94% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Firefox is a major global browser used across consumer and enterprise environments
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
High

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

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CVE-2013-0757 CRITICAL POC
9.3 Jan 13

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CVE-2014-1510 CRITICAL POC
9.8 Mar 19

The Web IDL implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and Se

CVE-2014-1511 CRITICAL POC
9.8 Mar 19

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remo

CVE-2013-0643 HIGH
8.8 Feb 27

The Firefox sandbox in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.67 and 11.x before 11.6.602.171 on Windows and Mac OS X, and b

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr:140.14-75.12 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS Fixed

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