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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ExploitDeliver crafted IndexedDB operations
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ExecutionTrigger information disclosure in storage component
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ImpactExfiltrate leaked cross-origin data
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 the victim to use Firefox (versions prior to 158, or ESR prior to 153.5) and to visit or interact with attacker-controlled web content that exercises the Storage: IndexedDB component - the CVSS UI:R flag confirms user interaction is mandatory, which is the main limiting factor. No authentication is required of the attacker (PR:N, unauthenticated), and no special victim-side configuration is implied; IndexedDB is a standard, enabled-by-default web storage API. The attack cannot be automated at scale without per-victim interaction (SSVC Automatable=no), and impact is confined to partial confidentiality (information disclosure only). |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate severity issue, not a top priority. All signals align downward: the CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) scores 4.3 and limits impact to partial confidentiality loss only (C:L, I:N, A:N), and crucially requires user interaction (UI:R) - the victim must visit or interact with attacker-controlled content. CISA's SSVC framework corroborates this: Exploitation=none (no observed or public exploitation), Automatable=no (cannot be reliably mass-exploited without per-victim interaction), and Technical Impact=partial. No KEV listing and no POC are present in the input, so this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' No EPSS score was provided, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified. There is no conflict between signals - network vector is consistent with a browser rendering remote web content, and the required user interaction is the primary limiting factor. The one caveat is that the description is terse ('Information disclosure in the Storage: IndexedDB component') and does not specify exactly what data is disclosed; the C:L rating suggests a bounded leak (e.g., cross-origin data or memory remnants) rather than full credential/session compromise. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page that abuses a flaw in Firefox's IndexedDB storage handling; when a victim visits the page, the page reads information it should not be able to access (e.g., data belonging to another origin or residual browser memory). No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and because user interaction is required (UI:R), the attacker must lure the victim to the page rather than exploit passively at scale. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Information disclosure in the Mozilla Firefox Storage: IndexedDB component allows attacker-controlled web content to read data it should not be able to access, affecting Firefox versions prior to 158 and Firefox ESR versions prior to 153.5. Exploitation requires the victim to browse to or interact with a malicious or compromised page that exercises IndexedDB, as reflected by the UI:R flag in the CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N vector; the attacker needs no authentication, but no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as none and the issue as non-automatable. Impact is limited to partial confidentiality loss (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect, making this a low-to-moderate severity issue rather than a top remediation priority.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor-released patches: upgrade Mozilla Firefox to version 158 or later, or, for the extended-support branch, upgrade Firefox ESR to version 153.5 or later - these are the exact fix versions named in the advisory data (mfsa2026-106 and mfsa2026-108, with the underlying bug tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2069638). Because the defect is in the built-in IndexedDB storage implementation, there is no meaningful server-side workaround, and disabling IndexedDB via the dom.indexedDB.enabled preference is a poor trade-off: it breaks or degrades many legitimate web applications that rely on it for offline and client-side state, and it can be reverted by users unfamiliar with the setting. If a staged rollout is required, prioritize fleet-managed or internet-facing browsing populations on the ESR channel first, since they are the most likely to be pinned to an older 153.x build, and pair the upgrade with standard measures already in most enterprise baselines - content filtering or script-blocking extensions for untrusted sites to reduce exposure to attacker-controlled IndexedDB-triggering content - while recognizing that these controls only narrow, not close, the window before patching.
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IndexedDB is the standard, enabled-by-default browser API that lets web applications store structured, potentially large volumes of data client-side in an origin-scoped database, and Firefox's Storage component implements the backend that enforces those origin boundaries. This finding is classified under CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor), meaning the root cause is a breakdown in the access or isolation logic that decides which data a given origin may read, rather than memory corruption or code execution. Because the flaw lives in a web-exposed storage API rather than privileged browser code, the realistic attack surface is a page the victim already chooses to load, which is why the assessed vector carries UI:R; the AV:N/PR:N components confirm the trigger can be delivered over the network by an unauthenticated party through ordinary browsing, while S:U and C:L/I:N/A:N constrain the outcome to unintended read access within the same security scope. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* describes the affected Firefox product line generically, with the specific vulnerable range defined by the fix boundaries (pre-158, and ESR pre-153.5).
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Remote web content exploits the browser (AV:N, PR:N) but requires the victim to visit a page (UI:R); impact is limited to partial confidentiality disclosure (C:L, I:N, A:N).
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CVSS VectorVendor: mozilla
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Information disclosure in the Storage: IndexedDB component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158 and Firefox ESR 153.5.
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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