CVE-2026-113867 (GCVE-0-2026-113867)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-20 19:14 – Updated: 2026-10-20 19:46
VLAI
Title
Stanza injection in XMPP chat
Summary
Thunderbird did not escape attribute values when serializing outgoing XMPP stanzas. Because values from incoming requests were echoed back in automatic replies, a remote XMPP user could send a crafted request that caused Thunderbird to inject arbitrary stanzas into the user's connection, which the server would then process as if sent by the user. This could be used to send messages or change contact and subscription settings on behalf of the user, without any interaction. This bug only affects Thunderbird's chat feature with XMPP accounts. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 158.0.1 and Thunderbird 153.5.1.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 512 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 153.5.1 , ≤ 153.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 158.0.1 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Magnus Melin
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