CVE-2026-92240

Published Sep 15, 2026

Last updated 7 hours ago

Overview

Description
A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 156, Thunderbird 140.16, and Thunderbird 153.3.
Source
security@mozilla.org
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
thunderbird

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
9.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

Weaknesses

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-125

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations