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Memory safety bugs in Firefox and Thunderbird

IdentifiersCVE-2026-12327CWE-119· Improper Restriction of Operations…

CVE-2026-12327 is a bundled Mozilla vulnerability covering multiple memory safety bugs affecting Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird ESR 140.11, Firefox 151, and Thunderbird 151. Mozilla states that some of these issues showed evidence of memory corruption and assessed that, with sufficient effort, some could potentially be exploited to run arbitrary code. The available content does not identify the individual vulnerable functions or root causes for each underlying bug; instead, this CVE appears to aggregate multiple memory-corruption-class flaws fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird ESR 140.12.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation may trigger memory corruption and could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. Broader Mozilla advisory context also associates the affected release train with possible impacts such as privilege escalation, sandbox escape, same-origin policy bypass, information disclosure, spoofing, and denial of service, but for CVE-2026-12327 specifically the directly supported impact is memory corruption with possible arbitrary code execution.

Mitigation

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No specific vendor workaround is provided in the supplied content. Until patching is completed, reduce exposure by limiting access to untrusted web content and email attachments, enforcing least privilege, avoiding administrative user contexts, and using exploit-mitigation and endpoint protection controls where available.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade affected products to fixed versions: Firefox 152 or later, Firefox ESR 140.12 or later, Thunderbird 152 or later, and Thunderbird ESR 140.12 or later.
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VendorProductType
MozillaFirefoxapplication
MozillaFirefox Esrapplication
MozillaThunderbirdapplication
MozillaThunderbird Esrapplication

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