CVE-2026-118179

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

Clicking a news: or snews: link that referenced a message-ID made Thunderbird connect, without asking, to the host and port given in the link, even if it was not a configured news server. Line breaks in the message-ID were sent to the server unmodified, so a crafted link could send arbitrary commands to services reachable from the user's network. In addition, snews: links to such servers connected without TLS. 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 19:17:29.590000

Last modified

2026-10-28 14:42:32.260000

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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-118179",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-27T19:17:29.590",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-28T14:42:32.260",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Clicking a news: or snews: link that referenced a message-ID made Thunderbird connect, without asking, to the host and port given in the link, even if it was not a configured news server. Line breaks in the message-ID were sent to the server unmodified, so a crafted link could send arbitrary commands to services reachable from the user's network. In addition, snews: links to such servers connected without TLS. 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=2077789",
      "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]"
    }
  ]
}