CVE-2026-84138 Denial-of-service in the PDF Viewer component

What is CVE-2026-84138?

CVE-2026-84138 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 1 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Denial-of-service in the PDF Viewer component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 155 and Thunderbird 155.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-84138?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2026-84138?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-84138 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-84138 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qgw4-jqw6-383q, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-84138.