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Mozilla Firefox EUVDEUVD-2026-60683

| CVE-2026-74956 CRITICAL
Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (Type Confusion) (CWE-843)
2026-08-18 mozilla GHSA-q7p7-m6qg-cwfw
Critical
Disputed · 9.1 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 page
  2. Delivery
    Page registers/abuses Service Worker
  3. Exploit
    Trigger type confusion in origin check
  4. Execution
    Bypass same-origin policy
  5. Impact
    Read cross-origin responses/cache

Vulnerability Assessment

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

1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the victim to load attacker-controlled web content in a vulnerable Firefox build (before 154, or ESR before 153.1) with Service Workers enabled, which is the default configuration. Per the CVSS vector there is no authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction beyond navigation (UI:N), and the attack is network-reachable (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L). Limiting factors are that the user must actually visit the malicious page, the target origin's data is only exposed while the victim has an active/cached session with that origin, and impact is confined to confidentiality and integrity (A:N) within the browser rather than the host OS; patched or non-Firefox browsers are unaffected.

Impact

The signals are partly consistent and partly conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N) argues for high priority - remotely reachable, low complexity, no privileges and no user interaction beyond visiting a page - and a same-origin bypass genuinely threatens confidentiality and integrity of any site a victim is logged into, so even a mid-sized municipal IT team in gdynia should treat browser fleet patching here as urgent rather than routine. Against that, there is no EPSS score supplied, no KEV listing and no evidence of a public POC, which tempers the immediacy: high CVSS reflects potential impact, not observed exploitation. Note also the metadata inconsistency - the free-text tags label this 'Authentication Bypass' and 'Memory Corruption', yet the description and CWE-843 point to a type-confusion-driven same-origin bypass, not classic memory corruption; treat the 'Memory Corruption' tag as unverified. Overall this is a real priority for any organization running Firefox at scale because the affected component is on by default, but the absence of exploitation telemetry suggests routine-urgent patching rather than emergency incident response.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts or compromises a web page and lures a Firefox user to visit it; when the page loads, malicious script exploits the Service Worker origin-check flaw to read responses or cached data scoped to another origin the victim is authenticated to, such as a webmail or SaaS session. No credentials, plugins, or user clicks beyond visiting the page are required. No public exploit code has been identified, so this remains a plausible rather than observed attack path.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Same-origin policy enforcement in Firefox's DOM Service Workers component can be bypassed, allowing a malicious web page to access resources, responses, or cached content belonging to another origin. The flaw affects Firefox before version 154 and Firefox ESR before 153.1, and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.1 (high confidentiality and integrity impact, no availability impact). There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, though the network, no-authentication, no-interaction vector makes it attractive for drive-by attacks.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Firefox 154 or, on the extended support channel, Firefox ESR 153.1, which contain the fix. Managed environments should push the update through their existing browser deployment tooling (enterprise policy, MSI/PKG, or OS package channels) and validate that the running build is at or above these versions. Consult the Mozilla advisories at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-74/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-77/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-78/, and https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-80/ for exact build numbers. Because the flaw is in a core, default-on component there is no clean feature toggle; as an interim compensating control you can restrict browsing on unpatched machines (enforce web filtering to trusted sites, or disable Service Workers via the dom.serviceWorkers.enabled preference), accepting that disabling Service Workers will break offline features and push notifications on legitimate sites and is only a stopgap until the upgrade is applied.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability lives in the Service Worker implementation, a background script mechanism defined by the W3C that intercepts and caches network requests to enable offline behavior and push notifications. Service Workers are strictly scoped to a single origin, and the same-origin policy is the fundamental browser boundary that prevents one site from reading another site's data. The assigned CWE-843 (Type Confusion) suggests the root cause is an object being interpreted as an incompatible type during request/response handling, causing the origin check to be evaluated against the wrong object and effectively defeating the origin isolation the Service Worker cache is supposed to enforce. The only CPE provided is cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox, so exact affected builds must be read from the Mozilla advisories rather than a version-pinned CPE.

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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Medium–Critical)
Vendor (mozilla) PRIMARY 9.1 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 8.1 HIGH

Network-reachable drive-by against default config, but the victim must navigate to attacker content so UI:R; a same-origin bypass yields high C and I with no availability impact.

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

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
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.1

DescriptionCVE.org

Same-origin policy bypass in the DOM: Service Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154 and Firefox ESR 153.1.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

A critical same-origin policy bypass in Firefox's Service Workers component (versions before 154 and ESR before 153.1) enables malicious websites to access cached resources and responses from other origins without authentication. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, yet the vulnerability remains attractive for drive-by attacks due to its network-accessible, unauthenticated nature. All Firefox users in your organization face exposure to credential theft and unauthorized access to web-based services.

Business Impact: Severe
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: (1) disable Service Workers via configuration management (dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false); (2) restrict Firefox access to internal, trusted domains; (3) redirect users to alternative browsers for external web access; (4) implement Content Security Policy headers to restrict cross-origin interactions; (5) monitor browsing logs and security events for exploitation indicators.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
one of the most widely deployed desktop browsers worldwide
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment Vendor VulDB

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 CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
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
Out-of-Cycle
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact
Very High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +46
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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9.3 Jan 13

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CVE-2013-1710 CRITICAL POC
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CVE-2017-3823 HIGH POC
8.8 Feb 01

An issue was discovered in the Cisco WebEx Extension before 1.0.7 on Google Chrome, the ActiveTouch General Plugin Conta

CVE-2014-8636 HIGH POC
7.5 Jan 14

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CVE-2013-0757 CRITICAL POC
9.3 Jan 13

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbi

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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