CVE-2026-16360

critical

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.37, Firefox ESR 140.12 and Firefox 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 115.38, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-72/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-71/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-70/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-69/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-68/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-46251

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2043739%2C2045281%2C2045614%2C2045744%2C2045775%2C2047719%2C2049805%2C2051666

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2022635%2C2028004%2C2035756%2C2045184%2C2045185%2C2045198%2C2045392%2C2045395%2C2045396%2C2045397%2C2045405%2C2045414%2C2045415%2C2045451%2C2045454%2C2045508%2C2045510%2C2045513%2C2045515%2C2045518%2C2045604%2C2045607%2C2045612%2C2045617%2C2045619%2C2045624%2C2045625%2C2045729%2C2045737%2C2045741%2C2045742%2C2045763%2C2045767%2C2045770%2C2045772%2C2045773%2C2045783%2C2045833%2C2045848%2C2045865%2C2045875%2C2045957%2C2047723%2C2047729%2C2048795%2C2048799%2C2048801%2C2049392%2C2049397%2C2049398%2C2049399%2C2049404%2C2049405%2C2049407%2C2049812%2C2050657%2C2050668%2C2050990%2C2053166%2C2053273%2C2053576%2C2053583%2C2053587

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-21

Updated: 2026-07-24

Named Vulnerability: GHSA-496m-5cg2-hw82

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00468