CVE-2026-9078

🔶 medium

Summary

Firefox for iOS displayed specially crafted right-to-left (RTL) and internationalized domain names (IDNs) incorrectly in link preview UI surfaces. A crafted RTL hostname could visually reorder portions of the displayed domain, causing attacker-controlled sites to appear as trusted origins. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox for iOS 151.1.

CVSS Score

5.4

Medium

EPSS Score

0.0

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-05-25

First Seen: 2026-05-27

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 22.9% of all 325,576 vulnerabilities in our database.

#251,158

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: May 26, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Barath Stalin K

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-05-28

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-451

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
mozilla	firefox	Affected	< 151.1

🔗 References 2

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2029371

Permissions Required

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026...

Vendor Advisory

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