CVE-2026-16361

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2029734%2C2036518	Broken Link
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-69/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-70/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-72/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::esr:::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-07-21 13:17

Updated : 2026-07-24 15:52

NVD link : CVE-2026-16361

Mitre link : CVE-2026-16361

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-16361

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

thunderbird
firefox

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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