Improper Input Validation Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,140.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-20886665
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-92238  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 140.16 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation due to ambiguous parsing of mail headers. An attacker can cause multiple header fields to be interpreted as one or trigger memory safety issues by crafting malicious mail headers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1