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CVE-2026-117981

Critical 9.8

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Deferred

Description

Privilege escalation in the Toolkit component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 159, Firefox ESR 153.6, Thunderbird 159, and Thunderbird 153.6.

References5

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICAL Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 8 · as of 5 November 2026
CWE
CWE-269

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