ESB-2026.3333
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2026.3333
MFSA 2026-26 Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.34.1
8 April 2026
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AUSCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Mozilla Firefox ESR
Publisher: Mozilla Foundation
Operating System: Windows
Linux
macOS
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2026-5731
Original Bulletin:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-26/
Comment: CVSS (Max): 9.8 CVE-2026-5731 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVSS Source: CISA-ADP
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (Max): None available when published
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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2026-26
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.34.1
Announced: April 7, 2026
Impact: low
Products: Firefox ESR
Fixed in: Firefox ESR 115.34.1
# CVE-2026-5731: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.34.1, Firefox ESR
140.9.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.9.1, Firefox 149.0.2 and Thunderbird 149.0.2
Reporter: Brian Grinstead, Christian Holler, Tom Schuster and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
Impact: high
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34.0, Firefox ESR 140.9.0,
Thunderbird ESR 140.9.0, Firefox 149.0.1 and Thunderbird 149.0.1. 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.
References
o Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.34.1, Firefox ESR 140.9.1,
Thunderbird ESR 140.9.1, Firefox 149.0.2 and Thunderbird 149.0.2
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