Request forgery via news: links

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  "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118179",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Request forgery via news: links",
    "summary": "Clicking a news: or snews: link that referenced a message-ID made Thunderbird connect, without asking, to the host and port given in the link, even if it was not a configured news server. Line breaks in the message-ID were sent to the server unmodified, so a crafted link could send arbitrary commands to services reachable from the user's network. In addition, snews: links to such servers connected without TLS. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.",
    "evidence": "cve:CVE-2026-118179",
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    "severity": "unknown",
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      "affected": [
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          "vendor": "Mozilla",
          "product": "Thunderbird",
          "versions": [
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              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "153.6",
              "versionType": "rpm",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "153.*"
            },
            {
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "159",
              "versionType": "rpm",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
            }
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      "modified": "2026-10-27T18:27:52.176Z",
      "provider": "cve",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077789",
        "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-121/",
        "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-122/"
      ],
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          "shortName": "mozilla",
          "dateUpdated": "2026-10-27T18:27:52.176Z"
        }
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    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-cve",
  "document_id": 398035,
  "published_at": "2026-10-27T18:16:32.658+00:00"
}