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Memory safety bug in Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird

IdentifiersCVE-2026-12290CWE-119

CVE-2026-12290 is a memory safety vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. The provided content states only that it is a 'memory safety bug' fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12, and that Mozilla reported it among memory safety bugs that demonstrated memory corruption. No vulnerable function, component, or root-cause details are provided in the supplied material.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation could cause memory corruption and potentially lead to application crash or arbitrary code execution. The broader Mozilla advisory context indicates that memory corruption flaws in these products may be exploitable via specially crafted web content, and in browser contexts such flaws may be chainable with sandbox escape vulnerabilities for greater system compromise; however, no CVE-specific exploit chain is provided for CVE-2026-12290.

Mitigation

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No CVE-specific workaround or temporary mitigation is provided in the supplied content. Recommended mitigation is prompt patching. Where immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by applying least privilege, avoiding use of administrative accounts, limiting access to untrusted web content and attachments, and using exploit-protection and endpoint detection controls.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade affected products to fixed versions: Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12 or later, as applicable.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

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MozillaFirefoxapplication
MozillaFirefox Esrapplication

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Social activity

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