Cyber Posture

CVE-2026-8948

Critical

Published: 19 May 2026

Published
19 May 2026
Modified
20 May 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0003 8.2th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-8948 is a critical-severity Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy with Untrusted Domains (CWE-942) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 8.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NVD Description

Same-origin policy bypass in the DOM: Networking component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151 and Thunderbird 151.

Deeper analysisAI

Automated synthesis unavailable for this CVE.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

mozilla
firefox
≤ 151.0.0
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 151.0.0

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