Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,153.6)[154,159)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-21755965
  • published27 Oct 2026
  • disclosed27 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-118177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 153.6, 159 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in the calendar discovery process. An attacker can access sensitive information, such as NTLM credentials, or modify calendar data by tricking the application into subscribing to malicious local files or remote network shares. This is only exploitable if the lookup uses plain HTTP or if a malicious server is involved.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1