Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and 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, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
History

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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 and Firefox ESR 140.11. Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and 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, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.11 and Firefox 151 Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 140.11 and Thunderbird 151
References

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Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-754
CWE-787
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
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-19T17:10:52.184Z

Reserved: 2026-05-19T12:30:22.393Z

Link: CVE-2026-8974

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-19T15:13:10.454Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-05-19T14:16:53.977

Modified: 2026-05-19T16:16:24.210

Link: CVE-2026-8974

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-19T16:15:09Z