Use-after-free in Mozilla products - CVE-2026-117954

 

Use-after-free in Mozilla products - CVE-2026-117954

Published: October 27, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU158132
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-117954
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free in the positioned layout component when laying out positioned content. A remote attacker can supply crafted content to trigger access to freed memory and potentially crash the browser.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android

How to mitigate CVE-2026-117954

Install security update from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 159.0
Firefox for Android - update to 159.0
Firefox ESR - addressed in versions 115.44.0, 153.6.0

External References

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