CVE-2026-8968

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

19/05/2026

Last modified:

19/05/2026

Description

Denial-of-service due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2030467
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/