Findings

CVE-2026-8973

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 150.

Published May 19, 2026 · updated Jul 23, 2026 · mozilla firefox

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 and Thunderbird 151.

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Timeline

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  1. May 19, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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 and Thunderbird 151.

  2. Jul 23, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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 and Thunderbird 151.

Affected

  • cpe mozilla/firefoxversion unspecified
  • cpe mozilla/thunderbirdversion unspecified

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-8973

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-8973

    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 and Thunderbird 151.

    nvd.nist.gov

References