Critical (10.0) in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. In CISA KEV since 2022-05-23. EPSS 56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
10.0 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)