CVE-2026-118174

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Description

When a message containing an OpenPGP key attachment was displayed, Thunderbird automatically loaded the attachment's content to offer importing the key. A sender could mark the attachment as an external attachment pointing to an arbitrary URL, which Thunderbird then loaded without any user interaction, bypassing remote content blocking. On Windows, a URL pointing to an attacker-controlled network share could leak the user's NTLM credentials. The NTLM credential leak only affects Thunderbird on Windows. On other operating systems, the issue allowed a remote request that bypassed remote content blocking. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-10-27 19:17:29.037000

Last modified

2026-10-28 14:42:32.260000

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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-118174",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-27T19:17:29.037",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-28T14:42:32.260",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "When a message containing an OpenPGP key attachment was displayed, Thunderbird automatically loaded the attachment's content to offer importing the key. A sender could mark the attachment as an external attachment pointing to an arbitrary URL, which Thunderbird then loaded without any user interaction, bypassing remote content blocking. On Windows, a URL pointing to an attacker-controlled network share could leak the user's NTLM credentials.\nThe NTLM credential leak only affects Thunderbird on Windows. On other operating systems, the issue allowed a remote request that bypassed remote content blocking. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "vendor": "Mozilla",
          "product": "Thunderbird",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "153.6",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "153.*",
              "versionType": "rpm",
              "status": "unaffected"
            },
            {
              "version": "159",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
              "versionType": "rpm",
              "status": "unaffected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {},
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2080910",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}