CVE-2026-8974
8.8 HIGHMemory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.10 and Firefox 150
Published: 2026-05-19 · Last updated: 2026-05-26
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 8.8 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-119
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox, thunderbird |
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.10 and Firefox 150. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8974
- [Other]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1784128%2C1883230%2C1983677%2C2022390%2C2023116%2C2023657%2C2024255%2C2024418%2C2024441%2C2024447%2C2024966%2C2025412%2C2025467%2C2025940%2C2025950%2C2025956%2C2026284%2C2027247%2C2027255%2C2027288%2C2027306%2C2027322%2C2027332%2C2027333%2C2028266%2C2028292%2C2028319%2C2028526%2C2028870%2C2028876%2C2028882%2C2029062%2C2029309%2C2029414%2C2029422%2C2029428%2C2029447%2C2029732%2C2029785%2C2029793%2C2029813%2C2029899%2C2031028%2C2031457%2C2032039%2C2033610%2C2033854%2C2034498%2C2034628%2C2034978%2C2035966%2C2036668%2C2036905%2C2036930
- [Vendor advisory]https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/
- [Vendor advisory]https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/
- [Vendor advisory]https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/
- [Vendor advisory]https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/
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Same CWE
- CVE-2026-12330 — Incorrect boundary conditions in the Internationalization component (5.4 MEDIUM)
- CVE-2026-12329 — Memory safety bug fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.12 (5.3 MEDIUM)
- CVE-2026-12327 — Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird ESR 140.11, Firefox 151 and Thunderbird 151 (7.3 HIGH)
- CVE-2026-12326 — Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 151 and Thunderbird 151 (7.3 HIGH)
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