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Description

Zen is a firefox-based browser. Prior to 1.21.5b, Zen's glance and split-view context-menu actions, Open link in glance and Split link in new tab, load a page-controlled link URL with the System principal instead of the originating page's principal, allowing a malicious web page to place a link to a file URL that can load with System privileges when opened through either context-menu item and bypass the content-to-file security check that blocks an ordinary click. This issue is fixed in version 1.21.5b.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-24 | Published 2026-07-09 | Updated 2026-07-10 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Product status

< 1.21.5b
affected

References

github.com/...esktop/security/advisories/GHSA-vpvg-hp3v-rm5q

github.com/...ommit/44f7616238208200547c7df500d945752d7b6379

github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/tag/1.21.5b

cve.org (CVE-2026-57501)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-57501)

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