VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2026-4729
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.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.33%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Memory safety bugs present in 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 and Thunderbird 149.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.33% probability · 26th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120, CWE-825
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1944033%2C1997282%2C2009213%2C2011412%2C2021925%2C2022034Broken Link
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-20/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-23/Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4729
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450745
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-4729.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.