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CVE-2026-14899

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

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

Review impact separately from score.

Published · July 23, 2026

Updated · August 12, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Thunderbird. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: 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.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read