CVE-2026-2797 (GCVE-0-2026-2797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-24 13:33 – Updated: 2026-06-30 03:20
VLAI
Title
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component
Summary
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 148 and Thunderbird 148.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Evyatar Ben Asher, Keane Lucas, Nicholas Carlini, Newton Cheng, Daniel Freeman, Alex Gaynor, and Joel Weinberger using Claude from Anthropic
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