Critical severity · published Jul 21, 2026
CVE-2026-16412
Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.13 and Thunderbird 153
9.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.12 and Thunderbird 152. 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 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 153.0.0; 140.1.0 before 140.13.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16412
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16412
Broken Link
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2005113%2C2025369%2C2026301%2C2028663%2C2029761%2C2042242%2C2043271%2C2043300%2C2044612%2C2045378%2C2045406%2C2045407%2C2045616%2C2045626%2C2045730%2C2045732%2C2045769%2C2045771%2C2047957%2C2048934%2C2049818%2C2049822%2C2050151%2C2050368%2C2051653%2C2051658
Broken Link
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2043035%2C2045057%2C2045187%2C2045402%2C2045417%2C2045482%2C2045611%2C2045618%2C2045756%2C2046917%2C2047718
Broken Link
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2045413%2C2053635%2C2053637
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-68/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-70/
www.mozilla.org
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-71/
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