Firefox 159.0 fixes 41 high-severity vulnerabilities found with AI agents
JiaweiLiu_ · x · 2026-11-03
Security researcher itszn13 announced that Firefox 159.0 fixed 41 high security vulnerabilities discovered by him and ky1ebot using AI agents, most of which lead to code execution in the renderer. He praised the Mozilla security team's heroic effort to secure Firefox with agents and said this is one of many projects they are working on to harden software, with more to come.
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