CVE-2026-8955

high
Published 2026-05-27 · Modified 2026-05-20
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Privilege escalation in the DOM: Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8955.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-8955

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21381

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
debian debiansidfixed151.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed140.11.0esr-1~deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed140.11.0esr-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed140.11.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed140.11.0esr-1~deb13u1
suse slesaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"140.11.0"}140.11.0
mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"140.11"}140.11

References

CWEs

CWE-269

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.