CVE-2026-4696 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability located in the Layout: Text and Fonts component, impacting multiple versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. With a CVSS score of 9.8 Critical, this flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network with low attack complexity. While the vulnerability poses a significant risk, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 115.34.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:* | ||
< 149.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 128.0, < 140.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.