Sandbox escape in the Profile Backup component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 150.0.3, Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, and Thunderbird 140.11.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-45/ Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.8 · mozillaNVD modified 2026-10-26 18:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
References 29
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038679 Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-45/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-47/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21378
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21380
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21381
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21382
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22325
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22643
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26174
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26268
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26269
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26270
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26491
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26492
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26493
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26521
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26536
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26539
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26551
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26606
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26629
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26630
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27715
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8401
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2476492
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8401.json