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CVE-2026-8955: mozilla firefox Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-8955DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8955CGA-6vhw-j85f-h5w6
Published 19-05-2026Last modified 20-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-8955 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 5
MGASA-2026-0164MGASA-2026-0165OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10813-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10863-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10864-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21168-1

Timeline

  1. 19-05-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.39% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.41%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu8 products
  • mozjs102All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs115All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
Chainguard2 products
  • firefox< 140.11-r0
  • firefox-esr< 140.11-r0
Debian2 products
  • firefox-esr< 140.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 | < 140.11.0esr-1~deb13u1 | < 140.11.0esr-1
  • thunderbird< 1:140.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 | < 1:140.11.0esr-1~deb13u1 | < 1:140.11.0esr-1
Mozilla2 products
Wolfi1 product
  • firefox< 140.11-r0

5 vendors · 15 products

References

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