Spoofing attack in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2026-8963

 

Spoofing attack in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2026-8963

Published: May 19, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU131855
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-8963
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof trusted content.

The vulnerability exists due to improper UI representation in the Web Speech component when presenting speech-related content. A remote attacker can present crafted content to spoof trusted content.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2026-8963

Install security update from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 151.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 151.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 151.0

External References

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