CVE-2026-5731
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Memory corruption
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34.0, Firefox ESR 140.9.0, Thunderbird ESR 140.9.0, Firefox 149.0.1 and Thunderbird 149.0.1. 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 149.0.2, Firefox ESR 115.34.1, Firefox ESR 140.9.1, Thunderbird 149.0.2, and Thunderbird 140.9.1.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-25/Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-26/Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-27/Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-28/Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-29/Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2021894%2C2022225%2C2022252%2C2022294%2C2023007%2C2023130%2C2023191%2C2023364%2C2023829%2C2024074%2C2024417%2C2024433%2C2024436%2C2024437%2C2024453%2C2024461%2C2024462%2C2024472%2C2024474%2C2024477%2C2025364%2C2025401%2C2025402%2C2025472%2C2026287%2C2026299%2C2026305%2C2026426