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#7 The Hacker News general July 29, 2026 at 11:57 UTC

Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Nebula Security researcher Eten Zou demonstrated that CVE-2026-10702, a patched Firefox JIT compiler flaw, can be triggered by a single malicious webpage visit with no user interaction beyond navigation, achieving arbitrary code execution in the browser's renderer process. Critically, the same vulnerability was confirmed to affect Tor Browser, putting anonymity-seeking users at heightened risk. Mozilla rated it High severity and addressed it in Firefox 151.0.3.

Relevance score: 80.0/100

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