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CVE-2026-8970Privilege escalation in the Security component
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.31%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Privilege escalation in the Security component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
- unaffected 140.11 – ≤ 140.*
- unaffected 151 – ≤ *
- unaffected 140.11 – ≤ 140.*
- unaffected 151 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2032174 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-30920 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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