Request forgery via news: links
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- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Mozilla Thunderbird, the email and news client, is affected by this vulnerability. Clicking a crafted news: or snews: link can make it connect to arbitrary servers and send unintended commands to services on the user's network, and snews: links may connect without encryption.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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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.
Timeline
- CVE published
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Affected versions
- Mozilla Thunderbird
Version range not reported