CVE-2026-5731 (GCVE-0-2026-5731)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 12:43 – Updated: 2026-05-26 18:14
VLAI
Title
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.34.1, Firefox ESR 140.9.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.9.1, Firefox 149.0.2 and Thunderbird 149.0.2
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 115.34.1 , ≤ 115.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 140.9.1 , ≤ 140.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 149.0.2 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 140.9.1 , ≤ 140.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 149.0.2 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Brian Grinstead, Christian Holler, Tom Schuster and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
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