High 8.8Published Mar 24, 2026

CVE-2026-4722Privilege escalation in the IPC component.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:50 UTC)

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Privilege escalation in the IPC component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

mozilla firefox mozilla:firefox	before 149.0	NVD

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2010097permissions-required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-20/vendor-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-23/

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