Mozilla Firefox Vulnerability Detected at PWN2OWN Event

You may not have noticed that while Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, Ubuntu Desktop, and Tesla Model 3 all fell victim to hackers within a week, Mozilla Firefox was also hacked. Firefox took its place among those detected with a security vulnerability.

Hackers from all over the world can participate and companies have their own software tested for reliability. At the PWN2OWN event, Mozilla Firefox was hacked in just eight seconds using two critical vulnerabilities.

So who hacked Mozilla Firefox in just eight seconds?

The gifted hacker named Manfred Paul at the PWN2OWN 2022 event that ends on Friday, May 20. managed to hack Firefox by exploiting the lightning-fast double exploit using two critical vulnerabilities.

Manfred Paul placed fourth on the stage at PWWN2OWN’s opening session on Wednesday, May 18, and the overall Won $100,000 in prize money. Later that same day, for a successful zero-day use in the Apple Safari browser He won another $50,000.

What should Firefox browser users do now?

So you don’t actually have to do much. Because the version of the Firefox browser, in which Manfred Paul found the vulnerability, was the zero-day version. In any case, companies participate in such events to find these gaps and fix them immediately afterwards. The point here is that Manfred Paul just did it. He succeeded in 8 seconds.

The only thing you can do is if If you have stopped the automatic update, you need to turn on your updates or start doing them manually.. For this, after opening the Mozilla Firefox browser, you need to go to the three line symbols in the upper right, then the Help section and the About Firefox section. If you are going to do it manually, you need to install the following versions.

• Firefox v100.0.2 for desktop users
• Firefox v100.3.0 for Android users
• Firefox v91.9.1 for Enterprise ‘Extended Support Edition’ users

If you are one of the few people who use Firefox, we advise you to be careful. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments.