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CVE-2026-16412: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.13 and Thunderbird 153

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-21 · updated 2026-10-21
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 153.0.0; from 140.1.0 before 140.13.0 — fixed in 140.13.0, 153.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 140.13.0, 153.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2043035%2C2045057%2C2045187%2C2045402%2C2045417%2C2045482%2C2045611%2C2045618%2C2045756%2C2046917%2C2047718
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2045413%2C2053635%2C2053637
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-68/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-70/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-71/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-72/

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