CVE-2026-12326
HIGH 8.1Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 151 and Thunderbird 151. 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 152 and Thunderbird 152.
ELEVATED IMPACT
Severe if exploited (CVSS 8.1), but no known exploitation and low modeled probability. Patch on a normal cadence.
Exploitation likelihood
0.3%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 16th percentile
○ In CISA KEV
○ Public exploit / PoC
Impact if exploited
8.1CVSS 3.1 · HIGH
- ConfidentialityHigh
- IntegrityHigh
- AvailabilityHigh
What an attacker needs
- ✓Access: Reachable over the network — no local access needed
- ✓Privileges: No account or privileges required
- ✓User interaction: No user interaction needed
- ⚠Complexity: Needs a race window or specific setup
✓ lowers the bar for an attacker · ⚠ raises it
Affected
Products Firefox Thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119: Memory buffer overflow
- CWE-825
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Technical & other
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1767455%2C2004308%2C2024445%2C2028182%2C2029765%2C2029883%2C2030110%2C2030149%2C2030366%2C2030374%2C2030564%2C2031120%2C2033411%2C2038695%2C2042465%2C2042781%2C2042907
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2021955%2C2025960%2C2029066%2C2029403%2C2029435%2C2029803%2C2030570%2C2030573%2C2032264%2C2033234%2C2034816%2C2035907%2C2035963%2C2036895%2C2036898%2C2036907%2C2036909%2C2036928%2C2036931%2C2036932%2C2036934%2C2039238%2C2039463
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2039050%2C2042718%2C2042760%2C2044831%2C2045307%2C2045398%2C2045516%2C2045572%2C2041741%2C2044433
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-57/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-60/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12326
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489222
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-12326.json