CVE-2026-57962

medium

Description

A malicious LDAP server, which a Thunderbird user is configured to query for address-book autocomplete, can stash arbitrarily large amounts of attacker-supplied data into the Thunderbird LDAP client until it crashes due to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 152.0.1 and Thunderbird 140.12.1.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-64/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-63/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2042872

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-01

Updated: 2026-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00142