Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-14899

Off-by-one out of bounds read in MIME header parser for forwarding

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

The code to parse MIME headers for display when forwarding a message (if the setting to view all headers was enabled) had an off-by-one error, allowing a single byte to be read from the memory after the buffer for the headers, and potentially crashing Thunderbird. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 153 and Thunderbird 140.13.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CISA ADP / Vulnrichment (CISA-ADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
No product information recorded.

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-07-22
Last updated
2026-07-27
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
mozilla

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.46%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
40.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-193
    Off-by-one Error