Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability

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• cpe mozilla/firefoxversion unspecified
• cpe mozilla/firefox focusversion unspecified
• cpe mozilla/firefox mobileversion unspecified
• cpe mozilla/thunderbirdversion unspecified
• vendor Mozilla Firefoxversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2022-26486

• Recommended remediation

  Apply updates per vendor instructions. CISA due date Mar 21, 2022.

• Official advisories

  • CISA KEV · cisa.gov
  • CVE.org · cve.org
  • FIRST EPSS · first.org
  • NIST NVD · nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEV · vulncheck.com

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Code

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

1. Mar 7, 2022 · Catalog

   Detected

   An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderbird < 91.6.2, and Focus < 97.3.0.

2. Mar 7, 2022 · CISA KEV

   Known exploited

   Apply updates per vendor instructions.

3. Mar 21, 2022 · CISA KEV

   Remediation due

   Apply updates per vendor instructions.

4. Aug 19, 2026 · Catalog

   Updated

   An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderbird < 91.6.2, and Focus < 97.3.0.

Sources

• CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-26486

  Mozilla Firefox contains a use-after-free vulnerability in WebGPU IPC Framework which can be exploited to perform arbitrary code execution.

  cisa.gov
• CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2022-26486

  Official CVE identifier

  cve.org
• FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2022-26486

  30-day exploitation probability 2.4%

  first.org
• NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2022-26486

  An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderb

  nvd.nist.gov
• VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-26486

  Mozilla Firefox contains a use-after-free vulnerability in WebGPU IPC Framework which can be exploited to perform arbitrary code execution.

  vulncheck.com

References

• Exploit · bugzilla.mozilla.org
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · docs.google.com
• CISA note · nvd.nist.gov
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · raw.githubusercontent.com
• US Government Resource · cisa.gov
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · cisa.gov
• Exploit · mozilla.org

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.