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CVE-2026-6785: Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-6785cvecve-2026-6785
Published: Tue Apr 21 2026 (04/21/2026, 12:41:13 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Mozilla
Product: Firefox

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird ESR 140.9, Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149. 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, Firefox ESR 115.35, and Firefox ESR 140.10.

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AILast updated: 04/21/2026, 13:31:20 UTC

Technical Analysis

This set of vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-6785 and related CVEs) affects multiple Mozilla products including Firefox and Thunderbird in various ESR and regular release versions prior to Firefox 150 and ESR 115.35/140.10. The issues are primarily memory safety bugs such as use-after-free, uninitialized memory, and privilege escalation, which can lead to memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. Mozilla has officially fixed these vulnerabilities in the stated versions. The vendor advisories provide detailed references to individual bugs and confirm the high impact severity of these issues.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities present a high impact risk as they involve memory corruption that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. This could lead to compromise of user systems running vulnerable versions of Firefox or Thunderbird. However, there are no reports of active exploitation in the wild at this time.

Mitigation Recommendations

Mozilla has released official fixes for these vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, Firefox ESR 115.35, Firefox ESR 140.10, Thunderbird 150, and Thunderbird ESR 140.10. Users and administrators should update to these fixed versions or later to remediate the vulnerabilities. Patch status is confirmed by Mozilla advisories. No additional mitigation actions are required beyond applying these updates.

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
mozilla
Date Reserved
2026-04-21T12:41:13.671Z
Cvss Version
null
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null
Vendor Advisory Urls
[{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-30/","vendor":"Mozilla"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-31/","vendor":"Mozilla"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-32/","vendor":"Mozilla"}]

Threat ID: 69e778a419fe3cd2cdd16665

Added to database: 4/21/2026, 1:16:20 PM

Last enriched: 4/21/2026, 1:31:20 PM

Last updated: 4/21/2026, 2:45:34 PM

Views: 4

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