Security/Testing

Firefox Security Testing Team

Securing Firefox through Security Testing, Auditing and Monitoring

What are we working on? See our Trello board.

What do we do?

• security testing to support the security review process
• security testing of a feature you have built (or are close to building)
• in-depth security auditing or investigation
• help hunting down and eradicating security issues across the Firefox codebase

Contact us at security-testing@mozilla.com.

Contact

To report a security issue in Firefox desktop or mobile, use the client bug bounty form here.

What do we do?

Release Security Testing

Security testing of features to mitigate implementation risk and catch common security flaws. Testing will be targeted on features identified by:

• Residual risk highlighted by Engineering Security Review process
• Triage upcoming desktop & mobile features to identify “risky” features/changes that warrant security testing (catch-all for features which missed security review)

Vulnerability management and measurement

Security Activities in in the post-release phase - monitoring of incoming security bugs, measuring features on the web, and security maintenance activities like monitoring for security issues in dependencies.

Security Auditing Projects

Target security testing projects not tied to a specific Firefox release:

• Testing of large browser features that span multiple releases (e.g. Web Payments)
• Testing of Firefox security components (e.g. Sandbox testing)
• Testing of areas of known weakness (e.g. components receiving frequent security issues through manual auditing, static analysis, instrumentation etc)