Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,153.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-18302653
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-16382  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 153.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure through the Service Workers process. An attacker can circumvent implemented security mitigations by exploiting flaws in the handling of service worker operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1