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Incorrect boundary conditions in Mozilla Internationalization component

IdentifiersCVE-2026-12330CWE-119· Improper Restriction of Operations…

CVE-2026-12330 is a vulnerability in the Internationalization component of Mozilla products caused by incorrect boundary conditions. The issue affects Firefox ESR and Thunderbird and was fixed in Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, and Thunderbird 140.12. The available advisory text does not identify the specific function or code path involved, but indicates a boundary-handling flaw in internationalization-related processing.

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Impact

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The precise impact of CVE-2026-12330 is not stated in the vulnerability-specific advisory text. In the broader context of the Mozilla advisory set, exploitation of vulnerabilities in these releases could contribute to denial of service, memory corruption, privilege escalation, sandbox escape, information disclosure, same-origin policy bypass, and potentially arbitrary code execution. For this specific CVE, only that it is a security-relevant boundary-condition flaw is confirmed.

Mitigation

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No specific workaround or temporary mitigation is provided in the available advisories. If immediate patching is not possible, the only defensible interim measure is to reduce exposure by limiting use of affected Mozilla applications with untrusted content until updates can be applied.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade affected Mozilla products to fixed versions: Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, and Thunderbird 140.12. Debian users should apply the vendor-packaged firefox-esr update, including version 140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1 for the stable distribution as referenced in the advisory.
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MozillaFirefoxapplication
MozillaFirefox Esrapplication
MozillaThunderbirdapplication

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Recent activity

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Social activity2

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