Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious web page
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ExploitPage triggers Networking: Cache flaw
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ExecutionLeak limited cross-origin/cache information
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ImpactExfiltrate disclosed data to attacker
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a victim running an unpatched Firefox (prior to version 158) to interact with attacker-controlled web content (UI:R) - typically visiting a malicious page that exercises the Networking: Cache component; no authentication or elevated privileges are needed on the target (PR:N). The practical limiting factors are: (1) mandatory user interaction, so there is no silent drive-by against a passive user without some engagement; (2) impact is confined to disclosure of a limited amount of information (C:L, no integrity or availability effect); and (3) exposure is eliminated by upgrading to Firefox 158. No non-default configuration is called out in the advisory, so default Firefox installations below 158 are affected. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite being a browser vulnerability in a ubiquitous product. The signals are consistent and point the same direction: CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.3 (Medium) driven by network vector (AV:N), low complexity (AC:L), and no privileges (PR:N), but capped by the requirement for user interaction (UI:R) and limited to low confidentiality impact only (C:L/I:N/A:N) - an information-disclosure flaw in the Networking: Cache component (CWE-200). CISA's SSVC framework corroborates low urgency: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. EPSS score was not provided in the input, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be factored in - this is a data gap, not a signal of low risk per se. No signals conflict here: a modest-scope read primitive requiring a victim to interact with attacker-controlled content, in a product that is patched (Firefox 158). The one caveat is breadth of exposure - because Firefox is deployed on a huge number of endpoints, even a low-severity flaw warrants routine patching, but it does not warrant emergency prioritization. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker lures a Firefox user to a malicious or compromised web page that exercises the Networking: Cache component to leak a limited amount of information the attacker should not be able to read (e.g., cache-state or cross-origin resource metadata). Because user interaction is required (UI:R), the victim must visit or interact with attacker-controlled content; no exploit code is publicly known at time of analysis, so weaponization would require original research. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Information disclosure in the Networking: Cache component of Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to expose a limited amount of browser-cached data when a victim interacts with attacker-controlled web content; the issue is fixed in Firefox 158, and installations prior to that version are affected. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) confirms this is unauthenticated but requires user interaction, with only low confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability effect. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as none and automatable as no, making this a genuinely low-priority issue despite the ubiquity of the browser.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Firefox 158. Update to Firefox 158 or later through the browser's built-in updater or your managed package source, and follow Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2026-106 (https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-106/) for the official confirmation of the fix; the engineering details are in Mozilla Bugzilla 2050313. The advisory does not document a specific workaround for the cache information-disclosure path, and because the impact is limited to low-severity confidentiality loss requiring user interaction (UI:R, PR:N, C:L) with no known exploitation, there is no justification for disruptive compensating controls such as disabling the browser cache entirely - doing so would degrade performance and break offline behavior for negligible security gain. If immediate fleet-wide upgrade is not possible, prioritize the update on systems used to browse untrusted or high-risk content and standardize on version 158 or newer via your update channel; ESET-style network blocking of the vulnerable component is not applicable here since the exploit surface is normal web content loaded by the user.
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The flaw sits in Firefox's Networking: Cache subsystem - the layer of Gecko responsible for storing, keying, and serving HTTP cache entries (memory and disk cache, plus the cache API surfaces used by content). CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) indicates the root cause is a failure to properly isolate or validate cached content, so that an attacker-controlled page can cause the browser to surface information it should not. The networking attack vector with UI:R means the attacker cannot trigger it silently: the victim must load crafted content that exercises the cache path, and the resulting leak is bounded (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact. No non-default configuration or privilege is required (PR:N), so default Firefox builds below version 158 are exposed. The bug is tracked upstream as Mozilla Bugzilla 2050313 and was closed by the Firefox 158 security release documented in advisory mfsa2026-106 (EUVD-2026-98529).
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Web-delivered so AV:N/AC:L/PR:N, but requires the victim to load attacker content (UI:R); limited read-only disclosure gives C:L with I:N/A:N and no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (mozilla).
CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Information disclosure in the Networking: Cache component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
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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EUVD-2026-98529
GHSA-m724-47g3-phgh
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
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