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    CVE-2026-118179

    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.

    Published:Oct 27, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 27, 2026
    EPS:Oct 27, 2026
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    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Thunderbird

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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