CVE-2026-8975: Mozilla Firefox

Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 140.11 and Thunderbird 151

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0047 · 40th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: mozilla) at 19 May 2026, 12:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	unaffected 115.36 to 115., inclusive rpm unaffected 140.11 to 140., inclusive rpm unaffected 151 to *, inclusive rpm
Mozilla	Thunderbird	unaffected 140.11 to 140., inclusive rpm unaffected 151 to , inclusive rpm

Identifiers

CVE-2026-8975

CNA

mozilla

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-119 · CWE-787

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)Used for this record
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (redhat-SADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0047, the 40th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 19 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.