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Mozilla Firefox EUVDEUVD-2026-60687

| CVE-2026-74968 MEDIUM
Origin Validation Error (CWE-346)
2026-08-18 mozilla GHSA-95wr-53r3-2jx3
5.4
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 hosts crafted malicious webpage
  2. Delivery
    User is lured and visits the page
  3. Exploit
    WebRender fails to validate cross-origin boundaries
  4. Execution
    Attacker page accesses or influences cross-origin rendered content
  5. Impact
    Limited cross-origin data disclosed to attacker

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Origin validation
Exploitation Conditions

The victim must actively visit or be directed to a malicious or attacker-controlled webpage - passive exploitation without user interaction is not possible given the UI:R CVSS metric. The vulnerability specifically affects the Graphics: WebRender component; on systems or configurations where WebRender is disabled (legacy or unsupported GPU hardware may trigger software fallback), the attack surface may not be present. No authentication to any external service is required (PR:N per CVSS). The impact is bounded to limited cross-origin confidentiality leakage (C:L) and limited cross-origin integrity influence (I:L) within the browser process - there is no availability impact and no system-level scope change (S:U). The primary factors limiting real-world exploitation are the user-interaction requirement (attacker must lure the user) and the absence of any confirmed exploit code or active exploitation campaign at time of analysis.

Impact

The CVSS 5.4 Medium score is internally consistent with the vulnerability's profile: network-delivered (AV:N), low complexity with no prerequisites beyond user interaction (AC:L/PR:N/UI:R), unchanged scope (S:U), and limited confidentiality and integrity impact without any availability impact (C:L/I:L/A:N). The scope remaining unchanged confirms exploitation stays within the browser sandbox and does not escalate to OS-level access. EPSS data was not provided in the available intelligence, making probabilistic exploitation likelihood a data gap that cannot be filled from the sources at hand. The absence of a CISA KEV listing and the lack of any referenced POC suggest this is not currently being exploited at scale. The user-interaction requirement meaningfully reduces mass-exploitation risk, as automated drive-by exploitation without some form of social engineering is not feasible. Even a mid-sized municipal IT team in olsztyn should treat this as a standard patch-cycle priority rather than an emergency response - the combination of UI:R, limited impact scope, and no confirmed exploitation warrants prompt but not crisis-level remediation. The tags (Information Disclosure) align with the C:L impact metric, and no conflicting signals are present in the available data.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker registers or compromises a webpage and embeds content designed to exploit the WebRender origin validation flaw, then delivers the URL to a target via phishing or malicious advertisement. When the victim visits the page in an unpatched Firefox browser, the crafted rendering instructions cause WebRender to improperly validate origin boundaries, allowing the attacker's page to read or subtly influence pixel data or layout state from a cross-origin resource - such as a banking portal loaded in another tab. No public proof-of-concept code is referenced in available sources, making this scenario currently theoretical.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Site isolation bypass in Firefox's Graphics: WebRender component allows a remote attacker to achieve limited cross-origin information disclosure and content manipulation by delivering a crafted webpage to a user (CWE-346, origin validation error). All Firefox releases prior to 154 and Firefox ESR releases prior to 153.1 are affected across all platforms. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Firefox 154 or later for standard release users, or Firefox ESR 153.1 or later for users on the extended support channel. These are the vendor-confirmed patched versions per Mozilla Security Advisories mfsa2026-74 and mfsa2026-77 at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/. Organizations managing browser deployments via enterprise policy (e.g., Microsoft Intune, Jamf, or Mozilla Enterprise Policies JSON) should push the update through endpoint management tooling as part of the next patch cycle. If immediate upgrade is operationally infeasible, restricting user navigation to a curated allowlist of trusted sites via network proxy or DNS filtering can reduce exposure, though this trade-off significantly limits browsing capability and does not remediate the underlying flaw. Disabling WebRender via the about:config flag gfx.webrender.enabled=false would remove the vulnerable code path but may degrade rendering performance and is not an officially documented supported workaround. No additional compensating controls are described in the available Mozilla advisories.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

WebRender is Mozilla's GPU-accelerated compositing and rendering engine, written in Rust and enabled by default in modern Firefox. CWE-346 (Origin Validation Error) indicates the component fails to correctly enforce origin boundaries during rendering operations, which violates the Same-Origin Policy (SOP) - the foundational web security model that prevents cross-origin data access. Site isolation is the complementary browser architecture that segregates content from different origins into separate processes; a defect in WebRender's enforcement of these boundaries can allow one origin's rendering context to observe or influence pixel data or layout state belonging to another origin. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* encompasses all platform variants of Firefox (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android) across all version branches prior to the fixed releases.

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Severity by source

Vendor (mozilla) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Attack delivered via crafted network-accessible webpage (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R); site isolation bypass stays within browser scope (S:U) with partial cross-origin read and write impact but no availability loss (C:L/I:L/A:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/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
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
CVSS changed
Aug 18, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
5.4 (MEDIUM)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.4

DescriptionCVE.org

Site isolation issue in the Graphics: WebRender component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154 and Firefox ESR 153.1.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 98% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Firefox is a globally dominant web browser across consumer and enterprise environments
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 0.1%
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
No
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

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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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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