CVE-2026-118179
Clicking a news: or snews: link that referenced a message-ID made Thunderbird connect, without…
- Risk score
- 59/100
- CVSS
- 8.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 27 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 reach…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 8.8 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original 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.
Last activity 27 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.