CVE-2026-2780

high

Published 2026-02-25 · Modified 2026-03-02

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Privilege escalation in the Netmonitor component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 148, Firefox ESR 140.8, Thunderbird 148, and Thunderbird 140.8.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`firefox-x11-140.8.0-2.el9_7.alma.1.x86_64.rpm`
8	Fixed	`firefox-140.8.0-2.el8_10.alma.1.x86_64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`140.8.0esr-1~deb13u1`
sid	Fixed	`148.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`140.8.0esr-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`140.8.0esr-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`140.8.0esr-1~deb12u1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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