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CVE-2026-8970

36
FAUCET Score

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

First published: May 19, 2026Last modified: May 19, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 140.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
< 151.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
< 140.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
< 151.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 6th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2026-46
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2026-48
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2026-50
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2026-51
Vendor Advisory