Medium 5.3Published Jul 1, 2026

CVE-2026-57962A malicious LDAP server, which a Thunderbird user is configured to query for address-book autocomplete, can stash arbitrarily large amounts of attacker-supplied data into the Thunderbird LDAP client…

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 09:30 UTC)

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A malicious LDAP server, which a Thunderbird user is configured to query for address-book autocomplete, can stash arbitrarily large amounts of attacker-supplied data into the Thunderbird LDAP client until it crashes due to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 152.0.1 and Thunderbird 140.12.1.

CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 6, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

mozilla thunderbird mozilla:thunderbird	before 140.12.1; before 152.0.1	NVD

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2042872permissions-required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-63/vendor-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2026-64/vendor-advisory

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