CVE-2026-16411
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 152. 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 153 and Thunderbird 153.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.8
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-21 13:17:16.530000
Last modified
2026-10-21 14:17:18.710000
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