Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird

[ Description ]Official 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• CERT-FR28 Oct 2026CERTFR-2026-AVI-1406

  Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla products Translated from French

  Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products. Some of them allow an attacker to cause remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service.

  CVE-2026-117907CVE-2026-117889CVE-2026-117988+177 more CVEs
• BSI CERT-Bund27 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4216

  Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  Risk highCVE-2026-117930CVE-2026-117957CVE-2026-117890+177 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
• www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121
• www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122