CVE-2026-74940

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-18. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Use-after-free in the Graphics: Text component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(medium)
EG Risk
59(Track)
EG Risk 59/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
35%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 18, 2026

Last Modified

August 21, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Sep 18, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 153.1 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-80/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 140.14 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-79/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 154 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-78/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 153.1 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-77/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.14 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-76/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.39 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-75/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 154 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-74/
generic

Access Denied

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054842

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-74940(15)

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

Patch Availability(19)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el9_22026-09-09redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el8_82026-09-09redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el8_42026-09-09redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el9_22026-09-09redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el8_62026-09-09redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el9_42026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el7_92026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el8_62026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el9_62026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el8_42026-09-08redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el9_82026-09-08redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el9_42026-09-08redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el9_62026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el10_02026-09-08redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.14.0-1.el8_102026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el8_82026-09-08redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el10_22026-08-24redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el8_102026-08-24redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.14.0-1.el9_82026-08-24redhat

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.

Affected Packages

(6 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr102.11.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (195 versions)140.14.0esr-1~deb12u1—
thunderbird1:102.11.0-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (224 versions)1:140.14.0esr-1~deb12u1—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr128.13.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (71 versions)140.14.0esr-1~deb13u1—
thunderbird1:128.13.0esr-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (80 versions)1:140.14.0esr-1~deb13u1—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr128.13.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (72 versions)140.14.0esr-2—
thunderbird1:128.13.0esr-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (81 versions)1:140.14.0esr-1—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(5)

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 92× in last 7d / 388× 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 396 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-74940?
CVE-2026-74940 is a critical vulnerability published on August 18, 2026. Use-after-free in the Graphics: Text component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
When was CVE-2026-74940 disclosed?
CVE-2026-74940 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 18, 2026, with the most recent update on August 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-74940 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-74940 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 64.8% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-74940?
CVE-2026-74940 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-74940?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-74940, 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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