CVE-2026-8975
⚠️ highSummary
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.35, 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 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
CVSS Score
8.8
High
EPSS Score
0.4
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-05-19
First Seen: 2026-05-20
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is High Risk - more severe than 81.1% of all 333,415 vulnerabilities in our database.
#63,047
Top 25% most severe
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: May 20, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Total
Complete system compromise possible
🏆 Discovered By
Andrew McCreight, Valentin Gosu, Nika Layzell, Tom Schuster and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
SSVC data provided by
CISA
Last Modified
2026-06-30
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H