10 October 2024.
The Hacker News report that Mozilla "has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild."
Firefox users should check the version they are using.
The exploit has been addressed in:
- Firefox 131.0.2,
- Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and
- Firefox ESR 115.16.1.
Read more: Mozilla rushes out patch for Zero-Day exploit in Firefox.
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