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Mozilla security bugs do get opened up eventually. Specifically, once not only Mozilla but also various downstream distributors (linux distributions, etc) have shipped a fix for it. Release cycles there vary, so there is typically a gap of a month to a bit over a year (depending on whether the fix could be backported to the previous ESR) between the fix shipping in Firefox and the bug being fully disclosed.

That said, even after a security bug is open some information in it may remain hidden. For example, weaponized exploits attached to bugs are generally kept hidden even after the bug is opened.



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