Improper privilege management in Mozilla products - CVE-2026-109743

 

Improper privilege management in Mozilla products - CVE-2026-109743

Published: October 16, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU156028
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-109743
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management in the Panning and Zooming component when handling panning and zooming operations. A remote attacker can trigger affected operations to gain privileges beyond those intended.


Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox for Android
Debian Linux
firefox-esr (Debian package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-109743

Install security update from vendor's website.

Firefox ESR - update to 153.5.0
Firefox for Android - update to 158.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 158.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 153.5.0esr-1~deb13u1

External References

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