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Firefox for Android EUVDEUVD-2026-60679

| CVE-2026-74951 MEDIUM
Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CWE-1021)
2026-08-18 mozilla GHSA-39vv-6g7f-9j66
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: mozilla
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Attacker registers malicious domain
  2. Delivery
    Hosts page with overlapping iframe over sensitive UI element
  3. Exploit
    Lures victim to page via phishing or malvertising
  4. Execution
    Victim taps apparent benign content in Firefox Android
  5. Persist
    Hidden layer captures tap input
  6. Impact
    Unintended privileged action executed on victim's behalf

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Clickjacking prevention, X-Frame-Options
Exploitation Conditions

The victim must be using Firefox for Android (any version prior to 154) and must actively visit and interact with an attacker-controlled webpage - user interaction (UI:R) is a hard prerequisite. No authentication is required from the attacker's side. Exploitation is limited to Firefox for Android; the Firefox desktop browser is not confirmed affected by this CVE. The attack is constrained to the scope of the browser's browsing context (Scope:Unchanged), meaning the attacker cannot directly escape the browser sandbox or pivot to OS-level compromise via this vulnerability alone. Successful exploitation depends on the attacker's ability to socially engineer the victim into visiting the malicious page and performing a tap or click action.

Impact

The NVD CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5 Medium reflects a realistic middle-ground threat: network-accessible (AV:N), low complexity (AC:L), no required privileges (PR:N), but requiring user interaction (UI:R), with scope unchanged and only integrity impacted (I:H, C:N, A:N). In practice, clickjacking on a mobile browser is a credible social engineering vehicle - attackers can craft convincing lure pages that prompt taps in predictable locations. However, the absence of a KEV listing and the lack of any identified public exploit or POC significantly reduce urgency. No EPSS data was provided, limiting probabilistic exploitation assessment. The tags include 'XSS', which appears to be a mislabeling - CWE-1021 is definitively clickjacking, not cross-site scripting. The Scope:Unchanged metric means a successful attack does not pivot to other system components, bounding the blast radius. Overall, this is a genuine medium-priority issue for organizations with managed Android fleets - warranting prompt patching but not emergency response.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker registers a convincing domain and hosts a page that positions a transparent iframe over a Firefox for Android UI element - such as a permission grant button or a payment confirmation dialog. The victim is lured to the attacker's page via phishing link or malicious ad, and their tap on an apparently benign element is silently captured by the hidden layer, triggering an unintended high-impact action. No public exploit or POC is known at time of analysis, but the attack pattern requires only basic HTML and CSS knowledge to construct.

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 18, 2026

Clickjacking in Firefox for Android before version 154 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to overlay transparent or opaque UI frames over legitimate browser content, capturing user interactions intended for other elements. The CVSS vector (PR:N, UI:R, I:H) indicates no privileges are needed but a victim must interact with an attacker-controlled page, resulting in high-integrity impact through unintended user actions such as inadvertent permission grants or form submissions. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RemediationAI

Upgrade Firefox for Android to version 154 or later, as confirmed by Mozilla security advisory MFSA2026-74 at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-74/. The fix is a vendor-released patch: Firefox 154. For organizations that cannot immediately deploy the update, a compensating control is to restrict user access to untrusted web content through MDM-enforced URL allowlisting on managed Android devices - note this reduces browsing utility. Alternatively, switching to a different browser temporarily removes exposure but introduces other risk trade-offs. There is no known configuration toggle to disable the vulnerable UI rendering behavior short of upgrading.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

CWE-1021 (Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames) describes the clickjacking root cause: a malicious page constructs overlapping iframe or layer structures that intercept user input directed at a legitimate UI component. In the context of Firefox for Android, the mobile browser's rendering engine fails to sufficiently restrict how external web content can visually occlude or reposition sensitive UI surfaces - such as permission dialogs, address bars, or in-page controls - enabling click or tap hijacking. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all Firefox versions, though the CVE description explicitly scopes the issue to the Android variant. The ENISA EUVD ID EUVD-2026-60679 corroborates the NVD record, and the Mozilla Bugzilla reference (bug 1978587) is the upstream tracking issue.

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Severity by source

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

Clickjacking requires only a network-hosted malicious page and an active user tap; no privileges needed, but UI:R is mandatory; only integrity is impacted as no data is exposed and no service is disrupted.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE HIGH
Red Hat 6.1 MEDIUM

Primary rating from Vendor (mozilla).

CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla

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

Lifecycle Timeline

2
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
MEDIUM 6.5
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

Clickjacking issue in Firefox for Android. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 93% exploitable
Prevalence
High
widely deployed mobile browser across Android devices globally
Data Quality
5 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
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

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

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

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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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