CVE-2026-53900 | Cookie injection was possible when opening a PDF link

Firefox for iOS preserved cookies set on the initial PDF request across cross-origin HTTP redirects in TemporaryDocument, allowing a malicious site to inject arbitrary cookies into requests to an unrelated target domain. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox for iOS 152.0.

Published: 2026-06-16 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-53900 is rated Low Risk (17.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.11%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-53900

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-17 0.11%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-53900

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-53900

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-53900

GHSA-6xv8-mg86-mq56 · Severity: medium — Firefox for iOS preserved cookies set on the initial PDF request across cross-origin HTTP...

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-53900

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2026-53900 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (firefox), 1 status rows across 1 suites (sid): resolved 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-53900

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-53900

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox_mobile < 152.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_mobile:*:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:*

References for CVE-2026-53900

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