CVE-2026-8975

Public on 2026-05-19

Modified on 2026-05-20

Description

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.

Severity

Important

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CVSS v3 Base Score

8.8

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra	firefox	Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023	firefox	Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	thunderbird	Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2026-8975 Mitre: CVE-2026-8975