CVE-2026-109768

6.5Medium

Published 13 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Deferred · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash

6.5Medium

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: Required
Impact: High impact on availability
Weakness: CWE-400

Impact

Remote attackers can crash Firefox or Thunderbird, causing a denial of service. Exploitation requires convincing a user to interact with or render malicious content in the client.

Root cause

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw (CWE-400) in the Site Reports component leads to an application crash.

Affected systems

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 158 and Thunderbird versions prior to 158.

CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fix & remediation

Upgrade Firefox and Thunderbird to version 158 or later. No interim mitigation is provided.

shell

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade firefox thunderbird

AI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?

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NVD description

Denial-of-service in the Site Reports component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158 and Thunderbird 158.

References

Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109768