CVE-2026-8093: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 150.0.2

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-05-07 · updated 2026-10-26
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 150.0.1. 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 150.0.2 and Thunderbird 150.0.2.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: before 150.0.2 — fixed in 150.0.2
Mozilla Thunderbird: before 150.0.2 — fixed in 150.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 150.0.2; Mozilla Thunderbird 150.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1981270%2C2027154%2C2028332%2C2029327%2C2029894%2C2032189%2C2034837%2C2035968%2C2036256
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-40/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-43/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8093
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467701
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8093.json

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