CVE-2026-14899
thunderbird: Off-by-one out of bounds read in MIME header parser for forwarding
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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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 · 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read