Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38, Firefox ESR 140.13, and Thunderbird 140.13.
History

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:30:00 +0000


Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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Description Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.37 and Firefox ESR 140.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38 and Firefox ESR 140.13. Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38, Firefox ESR 140.13, and Thunderbird 140.13.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38 and Firefox ESR 140.13 Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.13
References

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-119
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.37 and Firefox ESR 140.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38 and Firefox ESR 140.13.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.38 and Firefox ESR 140.13
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2026-07-21T12:38:27.370Z

Updated: 2026-07-24T03:55:36.035Z

Reserved: 2026-07-20T21:56:10.203Z

Link: CVE-2026-16361

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-21T18:56:01.630Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-07-21T13:17:04.637

Modified: 2026-07-24T15:52:54.023

Link: CVE-2026-16361

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-07-21T12:38:27Z

Links: CVE-2026-16361 - Bugzilla