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High CVSS 8.1

CVE-2026-74983

Mozilla Firefox

Mitigation bypass in the Data Loss Prevention component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable remotely over the network and without authentication — but only if a user opens booby-trapped content.
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive data and modify or destroy data.
Weakness
An intended protection is missing or can be bypassed.
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
18 August 2026
CVSS
8.1 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.33% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 25% of all CVEs
Weakness
CWE-693
Sources
nvd
References

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