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CVE-2026-118179

Severity not reported
Data quality: partial. Some fields were not provided by the source.

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 n…

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.

CVSS
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Not reported by the source
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-27 19:17
Modified: 2026-10-28 14:42
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 14:55 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Mitigation & advisories

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References

Data sources

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