Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 150.0.1. 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 150.0.2 and Thunderbird 150.0.2.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-40/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-43/ Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 6
- CwesCWE-119, CWE-120NVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- References+3 references (now 6)NVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- Cpes+2 CPE criteria (now 2)NVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- StatusPublished → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- CVSS8.1 (v3.1, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)NVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- First seenunscored · mozillaNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:50
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 6
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1981270%2C2027154%2C2028332%2C2029327%2C2029894%2C2032189%2C2034837%2C2035968%2C2036256
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-40/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-43/ Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8093
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467701
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8093.json