CVE-2026-100824
Privilege escalation in the Places component
- Risk score
- 60/100
- CVSS
- 8.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 29 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 153.4, and Firefox 157.
- Affected
- Firefox
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Amber
- CVSS 8.8 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original description
Privilege escalation in the Places component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 153.4, and Firefox 157.
Last activity 29 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.