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Firefox EUVDEUVD-2026-69077

| CVE-2026-84128 HIGH
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-09-01 mozilla GHSA-3h3x-m88j-vrhj
8.8
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 prepares malicious web content
  2. Delivery
    Victim opens page in Firefox
  3. Exploit
    WebDriver BiDi improper access control triggered
  4. Execution
    Privilege escalation within browser process
  5. Impact
    Full C/I/A compromise of browser context

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion

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Exploitation Conditions

User interaction is required (CVSS UI:R) - a victim must perform some action, such as visiting a malicious page or interacting with attacker-controlled browser automation content, for exploitation to succeed. From the attacker's side, no authentication or privileges are required (PR:N) and attack complexity is low (AC:L), meaning no special account or elaborate setup is needed. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), so the attacker need not have local or adjacent access to the victim machine. The scope does not change (S:U), confining impact to the Firefox browser process itself rather than the underlying operating system. The primary exploitation limit is mandatory user interaction, which prevents fully automated exploitation without victim participation. The exact WebDriver BiDi configuration or feature state required to trigger the flaw is not explicitly specified in available data beyond the component identification.

Impact

At CVSS 8.8, this is a high-severity vulnerability with a network attack vector and low complexity, but the mandatory user interaction (UI:R) and SSVC 'Automatable: no' designation rule out fully automated, worm-style mass exploitation. SSVC reports 'Exploitation: none' and there is no CISA KEV listing, consistent with no observed in-the-wild abuse. Despite SSVC rating technical impact as total - reflecting full C/I/A compromise - the real-world urgency is high but scheduled: organizations should patch within their normal vulnerability management cycle rather than treating this as an incident-response trigger. No EPSS score is included in the available data; without it, exploitation probability cannot be quantified, and the absence of a public POC reinforces a lower immediate-exploitation-risk assessment. The primary gap between the high CVSS and moderate real-world urgency is the user interaction requirement, which limits attackers to scenarios where they can direct victims to malicious content.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts a malicious web page or automation endpoint that interacts with Firefox's WebDriver BiDi component through the improper access control flaw. When a victim user visits the page or triggers the interaction - consistent with the UI:R requirement - the attacker escalates privileges within the browser context, gaining full control over the browser process with high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit code is known at time of analysis.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 01, 2026

Privilege escalation in Firefox's WebDriver BiDi component allows network-based attackers, with user interaction, to achieve full compromise of the browser process across confidentiality, integrity, and availability dimensions. All Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 155 are affected, as confirmed by vendor advisory mfsa2026-82 and the wildcard CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and SSVC confirms no observed exploitation, though CISA rates the technical impact as total.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 155 or later, which is confirmed by the vendor as the patched release per advisory mfsa2026-82 (https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-82/). For organizations that cannot immediately deploy Firefox 155 - for instance, in environments with controlled software rollouts - consider restricting or disabling WebDriver BiDi functionality in production browser deployments where browser automation is not operationally required, as this reduces the attack surface exposed by the vulnerable component. Enterprise deployments using Firefox in managed or kiosk configurations should prioritize this upgrade given the full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No workaround eliminates the root access control flaw; configuration-level mitigations are supplementary until the patch is applied.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

WebDriver BiDi (Bidirectional) is Mozilla's implementation of the W3C WebDriver BiDi specification - a bidirectional browser automation protocol primarily used by testing frameworks for remote browser control and inspection. The root cause is CWE-284 (Improper Access Control), meaning the WebDriver BiDi component fails to properly enforce privilege boundaries within the browser, permitting unauthorized escalation beyond what the caller should be entitled to. The affected CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all Firefox versions across all platforms, indicating no prior version was safe; the fix was introduced entirely in Firefox 155.

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Severity by source

Vendor (mozilla) PRIMARY 8.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 8.8 HIGH

Network-accessible browser component requires no attacker authentication; UI:R reflects mandatory victim interaction; full C/I/A reflects privilege escalation to browser process control.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

3
CVSS changed
Sep 01, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
8.8 (HIGH)
CVE Published
Sep 01, 2026 - 12:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Sep 01, 2026 - 12:18 cve.org
HIGH 8.8

DescriptionCVE.org

Privilege escalation in the WebDriver BiDi component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 155.

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Why It Matters

Firefox versions prior to 155 contain a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WebDriver BiDi component that can be exploited over the network with user interaction to achieve complete browser compromise, affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the vulnerability is confirmed by vendor advisory mfsa2026-82. Organizations must prioritize upgrading to Firefox 155 immediately to prevent potential data theft, credential compromise, and unauthorized system access.

Business Impact: Severe
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 84% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
one of the most widely deployed web browsers globally
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 No
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
Very High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

44
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +44
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.

Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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8.8 Aug 08

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CVE-2013-1690 HIGH POC
8.8 Jun 26

Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before

CVE-2013-0758 CRITICAL POC
9.3 Jan 13

Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderb

CVE-2013-0753 CRITICAL POC
9.3 Jan 13

Use-after-free vulnerability in the serializeToStream implementation in the XMLSerializer component in Mozilla Firefox b

CVE-2012-3993 CRITICAL POC
9.3 Oct 10

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbi

CVE-2013-1710 CRITICAL POC
10.0 Aug 07

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest function in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird befo

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

The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.32 does not properly interact with

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
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 Affected

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