{"id":"CVE-2026-118179","revision":"7ac97e8282384820b23f3cf32aac0ce5","records":[{"revision":"7ac97e8282384820b23f3cf32aac0ce5","observedAt":"2026-10-27T19:45:55.783+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2026-118179","aliases":[],"title":"Request forgery via news: links","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.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:16:32.658+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:27:52.176+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Thunderbird","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Thunderbird\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Mozilla\",\n                    \"versions\": [\n                        {\n                            \"status\": \"unaffected\",\n                            \"version\": \"153.6\",\n                            \"lessThanOrEqual\": \"153.*\",\n                            \"versionType\": \"rpm\"\n                        },\n                        {\n                            \"status\": \"unaffected\",\n                            \"version\": \"159\",\n                            \"lessThanOrEqual\": \"*\",\n                            \"versionType\": \"rpm\"\n                        }\n                    ]\n                }"}],"metrics":[],"references":["https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077789","https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/","https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118179","license":"CVE Program Terms of Use","key":"cve-program:CVE-2026-118179","identifiers":["CVE-2026-118179"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}