Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 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 and Thunderbird 151.
History

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Description Memory safety bugs present in 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. Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 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 and Thunderbird 151.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 151 Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 151
References

Tue, 19 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-119
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Weaknesses CWE-416
CWE-787
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-19T17:10:56.318Z

Reserved: 2026-05-19T12:30:21.005Z

Link: CVE-2026-8973

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-19T15:12:07.761Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-05-19T14:16:53.860

Modified: 2026-05-19T16:16:24.030

Link: CVE-2026-8973

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-19T15:00:10Z