Description
Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 153.4, and Firefox 157.
Published: 2026-09-29
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6533-1 firefox-esr security update
History

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, and Firefox 157. Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 153.4, and Firefox 157.
References

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Description Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4 and Firefox 157. Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, and Firefox 157.
References

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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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, 29 Sep 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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Description Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4 and Firefox 157.
Title Privilege escalation in the Places component
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-30T17:21:08.263Z

Reserved: 2026-09-26T19:18:43.647Z

Link: CVE-2026-100824

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-29T13:48:37.079Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-29T13:17:47.700

Modified: 2026-09-30T04:18:20.610

Link: CVE-2026-100824

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-30T21:15:15Z

Weaknesses