Mozilla Firefox <149 & ESR <140.9 Memory Corruption (Thunderbird)
CVE-2026-4720 Published on March 24, 2026
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird ESR 140.9, Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.8, Thunderbird ESR 140.8, Firefox 148 and Thunderbird 148. 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 149, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird 149, and Thunderbird 140.9.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-4720 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Classic Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. A buffer overflow condition exists when a program attempts to put more data in a buffer than it can hold, or when a program attempts to put data in a memory area outside of the boundaries of a buffer. The simplest type of error, and the most common cause of buffer overflows, is the "classic" case in which the program copies the buffer without restricting how much is copied. Other variants exist, but the existence of a classic overflow strongly suggests that the programmer is not considering even the most basic of security protections.
CVE-2026-4720 has been classified to as a Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox:- Version 140.9, <= 140.* is unaffected.
- Version 149, <= * is unaffected.
- Version 140.9, <= 140.* is unaffected.
- Version 149, <= * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el10_1 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el10_1 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el10_0 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el10_0 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el7_9 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_10 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_10 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_2 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_2 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_8 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_8 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_8 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el8_8 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_7 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_7 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_0 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_0 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_2 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_2 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_4 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_6 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 0:140.9.0-1.el9_6 and below * is unaffected.
Exploit Probability
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