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critical 9.8

CVE-2026-117980 json

Use-after-free in the Graphics component

published 13d ago modified 4d ago also EUVD-2026-111011

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free in the Graphics component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 159, Firefox ESR 153.6, Thunderbird 159, and Thunderbird 153.6.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 153.6, 159
  • mozilla firefox_esr 153.6, 159
  • mozilla thunderbird 153.6, 159
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 153.6, 159
  • firefox-esr Debian 12 153.6.0esr-1~deb12u2
  • firefox-esr Debian 13 153.6.0esr-1~deb13u1
  • thunderbird Debian 12 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb12u2
  • thunderbird Debian 13 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb13u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-117980

  • MozillaFirefox SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 153.6.0-118.19.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4928-1

  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.6.0-1.1
  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.6.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12339-1openSUSE-SU-2026:12319-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-117980 updated cvss 6.1

firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the Graphics component

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 thunderbird, rhel10/thunderbird-flatpak
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
4d ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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