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Mozilla Firefox is a privacy-focused web browser with a strong enterprise presence, but its mobile variants have suffered multiple critical vulnerabilities requiring urgent patches. The security team demonstrates rapid response to critical issues but faces recurring challenges in mobile and edge-component security.

PROFILE
Categoryweb browserWhat they doMozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser developed by Mozilla Corporation, with a mobile variant (Firefox for Android/iOS) that emphasizes privacy and security features. Websitehttps://www.mozilla.org ↗
SECURITY POSTURE

Mozilla maintains a proactive security posture with regular patching cycles, but the internal failure history reveals a pattern of critical vulnerabilities in mobile and edge components that required urgent fixes.

Notable failures
  • CVE-2026-84135 critical issue in Firefox Focus for Android
  • CVE-2023-49060 internal page/data exfiltration vulnerability
  • CVE-2023-29534 fullscreen notification obscuration bypass
  • CVE-2022-26486 WebGPU IPC use-after-free
Patterns: critical vulnerabilities in mobile-specific components; edge-device and framework-level RCE/use-after-free issues; notification and UI bypass vulnerabilities
FAILURE HISTORY · 4
DATEEVENTSEVSUMMARY
2026-09-01 CVE-2026-84135 critical Mozilla fixed an unspecified critical issue in Firefox Focus for Android in Firefox 155.
2023-11-21 CVE-2023-49060 critical CVE-2023-49060: An attacker could have accessed internal pages or data by ex-filtrating a securi
2023-06-19 CVE-2023-29534 critical CVE-2023-29534: Different techniques existed to obscure the fullscreen notification in Firefox a
2022-12-22 CVE-2022-26486 critical CVE-2022-26486: An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free
Open questions: exact founding year of Mozilla Corporation · precise headquarters location · current employee count
DOSSIER · dex-RAG synthesis · grounded in our own collection + trusted sourcesbuilt 2026-09-18 04:31:55.005875+00:00