VDB-358459 · CVE-2026-6785 · Nessus 307899

Mozilla Firefox up to 149 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 149 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-6785. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 149. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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, Firefox ESR 140.10, Thunderbird 150, and Thunderbird 140.10.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-6785 since 04/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/02/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 307899 (Mozilla Firefox < 150.0), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 150 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (307899) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1228). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE openSUSE
RESF Rocky Linux
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox

Productinfo

Type

Web Browser

Vendor

Mozilla

Name

Firefox

Version

License

open-source

Website

Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

ADP CISA Base Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 307899
Nessus Name: Mozilla Firefox < 150.0

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔒

Upgrade: Firefox 150

Timelineinfo

04/21/2026 Advisory disclosed
04/21/2026 +0 days CVE reserved
04/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
07/02/2026 +72 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-6785 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-6785
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-358459
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2026-1228 - Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox ESR und Firefox: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 04/21/2026 16:00
Updated: 07/02/2026 11:38
Changes: 04/21/2026 16:00 (54), 04/21/2026 20:03 (2), 05/21/2026 02:41 (7), 07/02/2026 11:38 (12)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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