CVE-2026-8973

Description

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 Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-119, CWE-787

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1362365%2C1860538%2C1929005%2C19…
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8973
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479864
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8973.json