Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious page
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DeliveryDeliver crafted WebAssembly/JS payload
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ExploitTrigger use-after-free in WASM component
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ExecutionAccess freed in-process memory
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ImpactDisclose data / corrupt memory
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory lifecycle management
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation 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 use an affected Firefox version (prior to the fixed build, cited as Firefox 158 / mfsa2026-106) and to load attacker-controlled web content that exercises the WebAssembly engine - the WASM/JavaScript code path must be reachable, which it is by default in standard browsing. The key limiting factor is mandatory user interaction (UI:R): the attacker cannot exploit a passive or idle browser and must induce the user to visit a malicious or compromised page, which also means the flaw is not automatable for worm-like mass exploitation (SSVC Automatable=no). No authentication is required (PR:N). Impact is bounded to partial confidentiality/integrity effects within the browser process (S:U, no scope change). |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity, memory-safety issue that the aggregate signals consistently rate as low real-world priority rather than an urgent threat. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 5.4) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated flaw that nonetheless REQUIRES user interaction (UI:R) - i.e., the victim must browse to or load attacker-controlled content - and yields only low confidentiality and integrity impact with no availability impact. CISA's SSVC framing reinforces the low-urgency read: Exploitation=none (no observed exploitation), Automatable=no (user interaction blocks mass/automated exploitation), Technical Impact=partial. No CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score were provided, and no public proof-of-concept is referenced; therefore there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The signals are mutually consistent - nothing here is conflicting - so the honest conclusion is that this is a real but low-to-moderate browser memory-safety bug, already patched, not a high-urgency item. One caveat worth noting for verification: the CVSS vector sets A:N, yet use-after-free (CWE-416) bugs in a JIT/WebAssembly engine commonly produce crashes, so the real availability impact may be slightly understated; this does not change the overall low-priority assessment. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page containing crafted WebAssembly/JavaScript that triggers the use-after-free in Firefox's WebAssembly component and lures a victim into visiting it (UI:R). Successful exploitation could disclose small amounts of in-process memory or corrupt memory to influence integrity (C:L/I:L). No public exploit code is referenced, and exploitation requires the victim to actively load attacker content, limiting scale. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Firefox builds prior to version 158 carry a use-after-free in the JavaScript/WebAssembly (WASM) component that lets attacker-supplied web content corrupt memory inside the browser process, producing limited confidentiality and integrity effects (CVSS 5.4, C:L/I:L/A:N, S:U). Exploitation is unauthenticated (PR:N) but requires the victim to actively load attacker-controlled content that reaches the WASM code path (UI:R), so an idle or abandoned browser cannot be attacked and the flaw is not automatable for worm-style mass exploitation (SSVC Automatable=no). Independent signals rate real-world priority as low: CISA SSVC records Exploitation=none, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, leaving this a moderate-severity memory-safety bug best addressed by routine patching rather than emergency response.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 158, the release in which this use-after-free was fixed, as documented in Mozilla advisory mfsa2026-106 (https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-106/); the corresponding defect was resolved under Bugzilla bug 2067174 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2067174), and enterprise fleets should prioritize the update on systems where users browse untrusted or internet-facing content, since delivery is triggered simply by visiting a malicious page. Because the flaw is only exploitable through the WebAssembly execution path with mandatory user interaction (UI:R), a temporary compensating measure for systems that cannot be updated immediately is to disable the WASM capability in Firefox (for example via the about:config preference that gates WebAssembly support) and to block or sandbox untrusted web content - the trade-off is that disabling WASM breaks a large number of modern web applications and is unsuitable as a permanent state. Additional low-cost hardening while a rollout is pending includes keeping the browser free of privileged extension or unsafe debugging configurations that widen the reachable attack surface, and treating the update as a routine patch-cycle item rather than an emergency: CISA's SSVC assessment records Exploitation=none and Automatable=no, and no vendor or third-party report indicates active exploitation or publicly available exploit code at time of analysis. Version numbers other than the fixed Firefox 158 release should not be assumed from this data set.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is a use-after-free (CWE-416) in the WebAssembly engine that backs the JavaScript: WebAssembly component of Mozilla Firefox's SpiderMonkey runtime - the same component that compiles, validates, and executes WASM modules embedded in or fetched by ordinary web pages. A use-after-free of this class occurs when an object (typically a WASM instance, module, or associated metadata/buffer) is released by the garbage collector or an explicit teardown path while a stale reference remains reachable; subsequent dereference through that dangling pointer reads or writes memory whose contents may already have been reused, yielding memory corruption that the attacker can steer toward partial information disclosure or partial data manipulation. The declared CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* uses a wildcard version, so every Firefox build older than the fixed release is in scope for the affected branch. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity trigger with no privileges required, gated only by victim interaction, and confined to the browser's own security scope (no sandbox or OS-level scope change); the absence of an A (availability) metric means the assessed outcome is corruption-driven disclosure/manipulation rather than a reliable crash primitive. ENISA tracks the same issue as EUVD-2026-98511, and the upstream engineering record is Bugzilla 2067174, which feeds Mozilla's MFSA-2026-106 advisory.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-reachable WASM content with no auth (AV:N/PR:N) but requires the victim to load a malicious page (UI:R); UAF yields partial info disclosure and integrity (C:L/I:L), no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (mozilla).
CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Use-after-free vulnerabilities occur when a program continues to access memory through a pointer after that memory has been deallocated.
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.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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