# CVE-2026-110249: Denial-of-service in the Exchange email component

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-13 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- Mozilla Thunderbird: version range not reported

## Description

A malicious, compromised, or MITM-controlled Exchange server can return a single well-formed SOAP response containing an element with enough attributes to keep Thunderbird's main thread CPU-bound for seconds to hours. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 158 and Thunderbird 153.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Thunderbird, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077826
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-109/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-110/

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