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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.7

CVE-2026-118178 json

RSS feed could redirect its subscription to a local file or network share

published 2026-10-27 12 d ago modified 2026-11-04 4 d ago also EUVD-2026-111355

cvss
5.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A remote RSS feed could use the itunes:new-feed-url or newLocation element to permanently change its stored subscription URL to a file: URL. Thunderbird then read that location on every feed update. This allowed a malicious feed, or an attacker able to modify a feed delivered over HTTP, to make Thunderbird read local files and, on Windows, connect to an attacker-controlled network share, which could leak the user's NTLM credentials. The NTLM credential leak only affects Thunderbird on Windows. Other operating systems are affected by the local file read only. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla thunderbird 153.6, 159
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 153.6, 159
  • thunderbird Debian 12 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb12u2
  • thunderbird Debian 13 1:153.6.0esr-1~deb13u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-118178

  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.6.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12339-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-118178 updated cvss 7.5

firefox: thunderbird: RSS feed could redirect its subscription to a local file or network share

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 thunderbird, rhel10/thunderbird-flatpak
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

References

Sources

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