CVE-2026-118179
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.02
BB Relevance:
68/100
Published: 2026-10-27
Modified: 2026-11-04
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
Low Complexity
No Auth
Conf. Impact
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
Low
PR:
None
UI:
Required
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
High
A:
High
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.