CVE-2026-92240: Mozilla Thunderbird

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 156, Thunderbird 140.16, and Thunderbird 153.3.

Affected products

• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 140.16.0 (fixed in 140.16.0); from 141.0, before 153.3.0 (fixed in 153.3.0); from 154.0, before 156.0 (fixed in 156.0)

Published 2026-09-15. Last modified 2026-09-24.