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Mozilla Firefox EUVDEUVD-2026-60691

| CVE-2026-74978 HIGH
Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CWE-1021)
2026-08-18 mozilla GHSA-v52q-fx4j-2fmf
High
Disputed · 8.1 Vendor: mozilla
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Attacker hosts malicious webpage with overlay
  2. Delivery
    Transparent layer positioned over Firefox Widget element
  3. Exploit
    User visits page and clicks apparent UI control
  4. Execution
    Click intercepted by hidden Widget target
  5. Impact
    Unintended high-impact browser action executed

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 attacker must serve a malicious webpage to the target user, and the user must visit that page and perform at least one click interaction - consistent with the CVSS UI:R metric. The vulnerability is present in the Firefox Widget component without requiring any non-default browser configuration; standard Firefox installations running versions prior to 154 (or ESR prior to 153.1) are vulnerable. No authentication to any service is required from the attacker's perspective (CVSS PR:N). Exploitation is bounded by the requirement for user interaction - the victim must click within an attacker-controlled overlay - and impact is scoped to actions the Widget component can perform rather than arbitrary OS-level code execution. The specific Widget dialog type or sub-feature that triggers the vulnerable rendering path is not detailed beyond the bugzilla reference at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2036097.

Impact

The CVSS 8.1 High rating is driven by network delivery (AV:N), low complexity (AC:L), no required privileges (PR:N), and high confidentiality and integrity impact scores - unusual severity for a pure clickjacking flaw, suggesting the Widget component exposure can be leveraged for more than superficial click-hijacking and may enable sensitive browser actions or meaningful data exposure. User interaction is required (UI:R), which limits exploitation relative to fully automated attacks. EPSS data was not supplied in the intelligence feed, constraining probabilistic exploitation forecasting; absence of a KEV listing and confirmed POC places exploitation urgency at elevated-moderate rather than emergency tier. Even a mid-sized municipal IT team in boleslawiec should treat this as an urgent patch cycle item given Firefox's massive deployment footprint and the trivially low barrier for an attacker to serve a malicious page. The tagging discrepancy between the 'XSS' metadata label and the CWE-1021 root-cause classification is a signal-integrity concern: if an XSS component is present alongside the clickjacking, the CVSS C:H and I:H scores may be further justified, but this must be verified against the upstream advisory before communicating scope to stakeholders.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts a malicious webpage containing a transparent iframe or overlay layer positioned precisely over a Firefox Widget element such as a permission dialog button or browser prompt. When a targeted user visits the page and clicks what appears to be a benign UI control, the click is silently captured by the hidden Widget target, potentially confirming a sensitive browser permission, initiating an unintended download, or completing a high-impact browser action. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack technique is well-understood and requires no specialized tooling to implement.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Clickjacking in Mozilla Firefox's Widget component enables a remote unauthenticated attacker to trick users into triggering high-impact unintended browser actions through overlaid UI deception. All Firefox desktop releases prior to version 154 - and all ESR releases prior to 153.1 - are affected across platforms per CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the low attack complexity and zero authentication requirement make this a credible risk for any organization deploying Firefox at scale.

RemediationAI

The vendor-released patch is Firefox 154 for the standard release channel and Firefox ESR 153.1 for the extended support channel; organizations should upgrade all Firefox desktop installations immediately via the browser's built-in update mechanism or enterprise deployment tooling. Mozilla's security advisories mfsa2026-74, mfsa2026-77, mfsa2026-78, and mfsa2026-80 at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/ provide authoritative channel-specific upgrade guidance. If immediate patching is not feasible, consider restricting navigation to untrusted external sites through enterprise browser policies such as managed URL allowlists or kiosk-mode configurations; however, these controls impose significant usability trade-offs and should be treated as temporary compensating measures only. No vendor-documented workarounds addressing the Widget component's clickjacking exposure without upgrading are present in the available advisory set.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

CWE-1021 (Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames) defines the root cause class: an attacker renders transparent or opaque overlay elements precisely over a legitimate UI target, causing user clicks to interact with hidden or misrepresented controls. The affected component is Firefox's Widget subsystem - the platform-abstraction layer governing rendering of browser chrome and interactive UI elements such as dialogs, prompts, and permission controls. Per CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, all version-wildcard Firefox desktop builds are in scope. Notably, the source intelligence tags this entry as 'XSS,' which conflicts with the CWE-1021 classification; if a secondary cross-site scripting vector exists alongside the clickjacking root cause that would further elevate real-world impact and warrants verification against the Mozilla bugzilla entry at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2036097.

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Severity by source

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

Network-delivered clickjacking requires no attacker privileges and only user interaction; high C/I reflects Widget's potential for sensitive browser action hijacking 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 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
High
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
CVSS changed
Aug 18, 2026 - 19:22 NVD
8.1 (HIGH)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 12:23 cve.org
HIGH 8.1

DescriptionCVE.org

Clickjacking issue in the Widget component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154 and Firefox ESR 153.1.

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Why It Matters

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 154 (desktop) and ESR 153.1 are vulnerable to clickjacking attacks in the Widget component, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to deceive users into unintended browser actions. Organizations deploying Firefox at scale face heightened risk of user credential compromise, unauthorized data access, and malware installation through UI deception. This represents a material threat to security posture while patch availability remains pending.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: restrict affected Firefox versions where operationally feasible; implement web application-level frame-busting headers (X-Frame-Options, Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors); deploy browser extensions providing clickjacking detection and prevention; conduct user awareness training on UI deception techniques and suspicious overlay indicators; establish endpoint monitoring for anomalous Firefox behavior; limit high-risk user populations to browsers with enhanced clickjacking defenses until patch availability.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 84% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
globally deployed browser across consumer, enterprise, and government environments
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High

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 HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

40
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +40
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.

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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