CVE-2026-12328
HIGH 8.1Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird ESR 140.11, 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, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
Severe if exploited (CVSS 8.1), but no known exploitation and low modeled probability. Patch on a normal cadence.
Exploitation likelihood
0.5%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 38th percentile
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 Appstream (V. 10) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Appstream (V. 8) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Appstream (V. 9) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-120: Classic 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
Advisories
Technical & other
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2029402%2C2038477%2C2039726%2C2041373%2C2042268%2C2042451%2C2042782%2C2042858%2C2042929%2C2042965%2C2043213
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-57/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-58/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-59/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-60/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-61/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12328
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489218
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-12328.json