CVE-2026-74985 (GCVE-0-2026-74985)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-18 12:23
Modified
2026-08-21 03:55
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Privilege escalation in the Enterprise Policies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 153.1
Unaffected: 154
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   Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 153.1
Unaffected: 154
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