Findings

CVE-2026-8974

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.10 and Firefox 150.

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

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, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

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Timeline

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  1. May 19, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

  2. Jul 23, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

Affected

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

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-8974

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-8974

    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, Firefox ESR

    nvd.nist.gov

References