Calendar discovery accepted local file and remote network share locations
When looking for calendars in a directory on a server, during account setup or when adding a new network calendar, Thunderbird accepted calendar locations pointing to other servers, local files or network shares. A malicious server, or a network attacker when the lookup used plain HTTP, could make Thunderbird subscribe to such a location. On Windows this could leak the user's NTLM credentials to an attacker-controlled host on every calendar refresh, and changes to the calendar could be written to the attacker's share or overwrite a local file. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-118177
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Calendar discovery accepted local file and remote network share locations
core-cve · Original sourcePublished 27 Oct 2026, 18:16 UTC
When looking for calendars in a directory on a server, during account setup or when adding a new network calendar, Thunderbird accepted calendar locations pointing to other servers, local files or network shares. A malicious server, or a network attacker when the lookup used plain HTTP, could make Thunderbird subscribe to such a location. On Windows this could leak the user's NTLM credentials to an attacker-controlled host on every calendar refresh, and changes to the calendar could be written to the attacker's share or overwrite a local file. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 159 and Thunderbird 153.6.
cve:CVE-2026-118177
Thunderbird
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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