Out-of-bounds Read Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,140.9.0)[141.0.0,149.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-15763369
  • published25 Mar 2026
  • disclosed24 Mar 2026
  • creditRintaro Kobayashi

Introduced: 24 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-4371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 140.9.0, 149.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the IMAP parsing process. An attacker can cause the application to crash or access sensitive memory contents by sending specially crafted IMAP responses containing malformed strings with negative lengths from a malicious or compromised mail server.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1