Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Mozilla Subscribe
Firefox Subscribe
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154 and Firefox ESR 153.1. Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
References

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154 and Firefox ESR 153.1.
Title Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component
References

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-18T18:55:33.071Z

Reserved: 2026-08-17T11:58:10.442Z

Link: CVE-2026-74955

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-18T14:05:00.780Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-08-18T13:17:32.493

Modified: 2026-08-18T19:17:10.660

Link: CVE-2026-74955

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-18T19:00:12Z

Weaknesses