CVE-2026-8950

CRITICALNVD 9.39.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-05-19. NVD baseline CVSS 9.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
9.3
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Same-origin policy bypass in the Networking: HTTP component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.

CVSS v3
9.3
EG Score
9.3(medium)
EPSS
9.4%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 19, 2026

Last Modified

May 20, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated May 19, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 140.11 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 151 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-50/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.11 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 151 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/
generic

Access Denied

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1965430

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8950(20)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el10_02026-06-22redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el8_62026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el9_42026-06-17redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el10_02026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el9_22026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el9_62026-06-17redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el9_62026-06-17redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el8_62026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el8_82026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el7_92026-06-17redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el8_42026-06-17redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el8_42026-06-16redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el9_22026-06-16redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el9_42026-06-16redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el8_82026-06-16redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el8_102026-06-03redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el10_22026-06-01redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.11.0-1.el9_82026-05-27redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el9_82026-05-27redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el8_102026-05-27redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.11.0-1.el10_22026-05-27redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 57× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 271 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-21 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-21 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-19 02:29 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-07-16 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
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  11. 2026-07-13 22:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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  14. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-07-08 15:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-07-07 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
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  20. 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-07-05 02:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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  24. 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-06-29 20:57 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-06-29 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-06-28 14:03 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-06-28 14:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-06-28 09:22 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-06-28 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-06-28 05:07 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-06-28 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-06-28 00:52 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-06-28 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-06-27 20:30 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-06-27 20:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-06-27 12:38 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-06-27 12:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-06-27 07:39 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-06-27 07:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-06-26 19:49 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-06-26 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-06-26 03:52 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-06-26 03:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-06-25 21:26 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-06-25 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-06-25 17:14 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-06-25 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-06-25 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-06-24 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
  32. 2026-06-23 21:33 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-06-21 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-06-21 01:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  36. 2026-06-19 19:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  37. 2026-06-18 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-06-18 02:11 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-06-18 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-06-17 20:09 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-06-17 20:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-06-17 11:49 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-06-17 11:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-06-17 05:40 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-06-17 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-06-17 01:29 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-06-17 01:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-06-16 21:18 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-06-16 21:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-06-16 17:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-06-16 11:44 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-06-16 11:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-06-16 07:33 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-06-16 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-06-16 03:22 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-06-16 03:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-06-15 23:04 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-06-15 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-06-15 17:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  60. 2026-06-15 17:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-06-15 16:35 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-06-15 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-06-15 04:09 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-06-15 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-06-14 23:55 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-06-14 23:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-06-14 23:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  68. 2026-06-14 19:43 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-06-14 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-06-14 15:32 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-06-14 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-06-14 11:19 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-06-14 11:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-06-14 07:07 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-06-14 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichment

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-8950?
CVE-2026-8950 is a critical vulnerability published on May 19, 2026. Same-origin policy bypass in the Networking: HTTP component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
When was CVE-2026-8950 disclosed?
CVE-2026-8950 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 19, 2026, with the most recent update on May 20, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-8950 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-8950 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 9.4% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-8950?
CVE-2026-8950 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-8950?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-8950, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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