CVE-2026-8975Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 140.11 and Thunderbird 151
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Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and Thunderbird 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
- 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119, CWE-787
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mozilla
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Mozilla Firefox mozilla:firefox (from the name) | 115.36 builds before 115.* not affected; 140.11 builds before 140.* not affected; from 151 not affected | CNA record |
Mozilla Thunderbird mozilla:thunderbird (from the name) | 140.11 builds before 140.* not affected; from 151 not affected | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux | from 0:140.11.0-1.el10_2 not affected | CISA ADP |
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support redhat:enterprise_linux_eus | from 0:140.11.0-1.el10_0 not affected | CISA ADP |
from 0:140.11.0-1.el7_9 not affected | CISA ADP | |
from 0:140.11.0-1.el8_4 not affected | CISA ADP | |
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On redhat:rhel_eus_long_life | from 0:140.11.0-1.el8_4 not affected | CISA ADP |
from 0:140.11.0-1.el8_8 not affected | CISA ADP | |
from 0:140.11.0-1.el8_8 not affected | CISA ADP | |
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support redhat:rhel_eus | from 0:140.11.0-1.el9_6 not affected | CISA ADP |
mozilla firefox mozilla:firefox | before 115.36.0; before 151.0.0; from 140.0 before 140.11.0 | NVD |
mozilla thunderbird mozilla:thunderbird | before 140.11; before 151.0.0 | NVD |
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1860195%2C2029325%2C2029429%2C2029910%2C2035915%2C2038678%2C2038669permissions-required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/vendor-advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-47/vendor-advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/vendor-advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/vendor-advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21378
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21380
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21381
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21382
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22325
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22643
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26174
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26268
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26269
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26270
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26491
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26492
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26493
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26521
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26536
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26539
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26551
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26606
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26629
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