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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2026-4729 json

Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149

published 2026-03-24 7 mo ago modified 2026-07-15 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-14873

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 149.0
  • mozilla thunderbird 149.0
  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 149.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11373-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10458-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-4729 updated cvss 7.5

firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 firefox, rhel10/firefox-flatpak
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference

References

Sources

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