CVE-2026-8973
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 151
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.8EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
19 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8973https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1362365%2C1860538%2C1929005%2C1983353%2C1998526%2C2023271%2C2023943%2C2024244%2C2024260%2C2024443%2C2024665%2C2024774%2C2024916%2C2025346%2C2025357%2C2025406%2C2025434%2C2025488%2C2025496%2C2025942%2C2025947%2C2025968%2C2026279%2C2027159%2C2027239%2C2027276%2C2027308%2C2027310%2C2027324%2C2027329%2C2027363%2C2027381%2C2027382%2C2027383%2C2028274%2C2028884%2C2029060%2C2029065%2C2029068%2C2029281%2C2029293%2C2029297%2C2029303%2C2029439%2C2029448%2C2029703%2C2029720%2C2029721%2C2029723%2C2029770%2C2029771%2C2029782%2C2029818%2C2029885%2C2030100%2C2030379%2C2030385%2C2030979%2C2031119%2C2031122%2C2034119%2C2034791%2C2035209%2C2036666%2C2037986https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479864https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8973.jsonhttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/