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CVE-2026-118179 json

Request forgery via news: links

published 13d ago modified 5d ago also EUVD-2026-111356

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla thunderbird 153.6, 159
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 153.6, 159
  • thunderbird Debian 12 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb12u2
  • thunderbird Debian 13 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb13u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-118179

  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.6.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12339-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-118179 updated cvss 6.1

thunderbird: Request forgery via news: links

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 thunderbird, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 thunderbird, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rhel10/thunderbird-flatpak, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
5d ago

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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