CVE-2026-12298

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.45.4—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-16. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 5.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
5.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.4Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 152. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.

CVSS v3
5.4
EG Score
5.4(medium)
EG Risk
24(Track)
EG Risk 24/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity54% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
23%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 16, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jun 16, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.12 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-58/
generic

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 152 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-57/
generic

Access Denied

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2041981

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-12298(20)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el9_22026-07-15redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el8_62026-07-14redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el8_42026-07-14redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el8_82026-07-14redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el9_42026-07-13redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el9_42026-07-13redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el9_62026-07-13redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el10_02026-07-13redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el7_92026-07-13redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el9_62026-07-09redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el8_62026-07-09redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el9_22026-07-07redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el10_02026-07-07redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el8_42026-07-07redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el8_82026-07-07redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el8_102026-06-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el10_22026-06-29redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:140.12.0-1.el9_82026-06-25redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el9_82026-06-22redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el10_22026-06-22redhat
redhatfirefox-0:140.12.0-1.el8_102026-06-22redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(8 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (279 versions)140.12.0esr-1~deb11u1—
thunderbird1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (330 versions)1:140.12.0esr-1~deb11u1—
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr102.11.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (186 versions)140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1—
thunderbird1:102.11.0-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (215 versions)1:140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr128.13.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (62 versions)140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1—
thunderbird1:128.13.0esr-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (71 versions)1:140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
firefox-esr128.13.0esr-1 ... 140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (63 versions)140.12.0esr-1—
thunderbird1:128.13.0esr-1 ... 1:140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1 (72 versions)1:140.12.0esr-1—

Weakness Classification(4)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 100× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 205 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-24 23:26 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-24 23:26 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-08-24 23:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-23 09:28 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-23 09:28 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-08-23 09:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-21 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-21 17:38 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-21 17:38 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-08-21 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-20 16:19 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-20 16:19 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-08-20 16:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-19 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-19 13:08 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-08-19 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-17 06:38 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-08-17 06:38 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-08-17 06:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-08-16 05:32 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-16 05:32 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-16 05:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-15 04:31 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-15 04:31 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-08-15 04:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-14 03:28 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-14 03:28 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-08-14 03:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-13 02:27 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-13 02:27 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-08-13 02:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-12 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-12 01:26 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-08-12 01:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-11 00:26 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-11 00:26 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-08-11 00:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-10 23:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-08-09 23:25 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-08-09 23:25 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-08-09 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-08-08 22:25 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-08-08 22:25 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-08-08 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-08-07 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-08-07 21:24 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-08-07 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-08-06 20:23 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-08-06 20:23 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-06 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-08-05 19:23 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-08-05 19:23 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-08-05 19:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-08-04 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-08-04 15:42 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-08-04 15:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-08-04 15:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-08-04 10:38 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-08-03 14:41 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-08-03 14:41 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-08-03 14:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-08-03 10:35 UTCEPSS rescore
  53. 2026-08-02 09:24 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-02 09:24 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-08-02 09:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-08-02 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-08-01 08:23 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-01 08:23 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-08-01 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-08-01 04:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-07-31 05:30 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-07-31 05:30 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-07-31 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-07-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  65. 2026-07-30 04:29 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-07-30 04:29 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-07-30 04:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-07-30 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-07-29 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-07-29 03:05 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-07-29 03:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-07-28 15:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  73. 2026-07-28 01:40 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-07-28 01:40 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-07-28 01:40 UTCGHSA enrichment

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-12298?
CVE-2026-12298 is a medium vulnerability published on June 16, 2026. Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 152. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
When was CVE-2026-12298 disclosed?
CVE-2026-12298 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 16, 2026, with the most recent update on July 15, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-12298 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-12298 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 77.3% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-12298?
CVE-2026-12298 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-12298?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-12298, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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