CVE-2026-16401
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Description
Privilege escalation in the Data Loss Prevention component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153 and Thunderbird 153.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.8
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-21 13:17:15.470000
Last modified
2026-10-24 20:10:00.137000
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