Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAttacker crafts malicious HTTP response/page
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DeliveryVictim navigates to attacker-controlled content
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ExploitSpoofed trust indicator rendered in Firefox
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ExecutionUser deceived into trusting content
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ImpactLimited information disclosed or trust abused
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security UI security representation
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires the victim to actively load or interact with attacker-controlled web content in Firefox (UI:R) - the flaw cannot be triggered against a passive or non-browsing user. Exploitation targets the Networking: HTTP component's handling, producing a spoofed/misrepresented UI (CWE-451). No authentication is needed on the attacker side (PR:N) and the attack is network-delivered (AV:N), but success depends on social-engineering the user into visiting the malicious page and acting on the spoofed content. Limiting factors: affects Firefox versions prior to ESR 153.4 / Firefox 157, requires user interaction, and yields only limited impact (no code execution, no integrity change per vendor scoring). |
| Impact | Signals are consistently LOW despite the ubiquity of the affected product. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 5.4 (medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L - network-reachable and unauthenticated, but gated by required user interaction (UI:R) and limited to Low confidentiality and Low availability impact with no integrity impact. This is a CWE-451 UI-misrepresentation/spoofing weakness, not a code-execution or data-breach bug. All corroborating exploitation signals agree it is low priority: CISA SSVC decision framework rates Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial, and there is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The one tension in the data is categorical rather than severity-related: the issue is tagged 'Information Disclosure' and scored with C:L/A:L, yet CWE-451 and the 'Spoofing' description point to deception/integrity of displayed trust indicators rather than classic data disclosure or availability loss - treat the confidentiality/availability framing as the vendor's conservative mapping of user deception. Net: a genuine but low-real-risk browser hardening fix, not an urgent patch-now emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts or injects a malicious web resource that abuses HTTP-layer handling to present spoofed or misleading content (e.g., a misrepresented origin/trust indicator) to a Firefox user. The victim must visit the attacker-controlled page or interact with crafted content (UI:R), after which they may be deceived into trusting attacker-supplied information or disclosing limited data. No public proof-of-concept or exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
A spoofing flaw in Firefox's Networking: HTTP component allows a malicious web page to misrepresent UI content to the user, potentially tricking them into trusting a spoofed page element. The issue affects Firefox versions prior to ESR 153.4 and Firefox 157; it requires the victim to actively load or interact with attacker-controlled web content (UI:R), means no authentication on the attacker's side (PR:N), and yields only limited confidentiality impact. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, CISA KEV does not list it, and SSVC scores exploitation as 'none' with automatable 'no' - overall risk is consistently LOW.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to a fixed release: Firefox ESR 153.4 or Firefox 157 (vendor-released patch confirmed by the advisory set MFSA2026-97, MFSA2026-100, MFSA2026-101, and MFSA2026-103, with full details at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-101/ and the Bugzilla record https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051115). Mozilla's built-in updater applies these versions automatically on the release and ESR channels. Where immediate upgrade is not possible, the realistic compensating controls carry trade-offs: restrict or block the browser from loading untrusted HTTP content by enforcing HTTPS-only mode and a strict content security policy via enterprise policy, at the cost of breaking mixed-content sites the user may legitimately need; run Firefox in a hardened profile that disables or restricts third-party/non-essential content and warns on insecure pages, accepting reduced functionality for legacy intranet or HTTP-only resources; and deploy browser isolation or a managed allow-list of permitted origins for high-risk users, which adds infrastructure overhead and latency. Because the bug is UI-spoofing class and only exploitable when the user interacts with attacker-controlled content, user awareness training focused on verifying page identity before entering credentials or approving actions is a useful secondary layer, but it is not a substitute for patching.
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The vulnerability resides in the Networking: HTTP component of Mozilla Firefox, the subsystem responsible for handling HTTP responses and feeding parsed content into the browser's rendering and UI layers. It is classified as CWE-451 (User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information), meaning the browser can be induced to present critical information in a misleading way - for example, showing content that appears to come from a trusted origin. Such flaws blur the boundary between network-layer response handling and the browser chrome, so a crafted HTTP response can produce a spoofed visual state rather than a memory-safety or code-execution primitive. Per the CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) the affected product is Firefox across versions before the fixed ESR 153.4 and 157 releases; the CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L indicates the attack is network-delivered, needs no privileges, but strictly depends on user interaction, and per our independent assessment the impact is limited (C:L/I:L/A:N). The bug was reported by Mozilla and tracked under Bugzilla 2051115.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Network-delivered spoofing needing victim interaction (UI:R, PR:N); spoofing primarily undermines integrity of displayed trust info (I:L) with limited confidentiality, and no genuine availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (mozilla).
CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Spoofing issue in the Networking: HTTP component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4 and Firefox 157.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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