{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-118179","assignerOrgId":"f16b083a-5664-49f3-a51e-8d479e5ed7fe","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"mozilla","dateReserved":"2026-10-27T18:16:32.317Z","datePublished":"2026-10-27T18:16:32.658Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-27T18:27:52.176Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"affected":[{"product":"Thunderbird","vendor":"Mozilla","versions":[{"status":"unaffected","version":"153.6","lessThanOrEqual":"153.*","versionType":"rpm"},{"status":"unaffected","version":"159","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"rpm"}]}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"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.","supportingMedia":[{"type":"text/html","base64":false,"value":"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."}]}],"title":"Request forgery via news: links","references":[{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077789"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/"}],"credits":[{"lang":"en","value":"Nguyen Tuan Hung"}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"f16b083a-5664-49f3-a51e-8d479e5ed7fe","shortName":"mozilla","dateUpdated":"2026-10-27T18:27:52.176Z"}}}}