CVE-2026-118174

medium

Description

When a message containing an OpenPGP key attachment was displayed, Thunderbird automatically loaded the attachment's content to offer importing the key. A sender could mark the attachment as an external attachment pointing to an arbitrary URL, which Thunderbird then loaded without any user interaction, bypassing remote content blocking. On Windows, a URL pointing to an attacker-controlled network share could leak the user's NTLM credentials. The NTLM credential leak only affects Thunderbird on Windows. On other operating systems, the issue allowed a remote request that bypassed remote content blocking. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-111351

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2080910

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-27

Updated: 2026-10-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0019