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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-118177

🗓️ 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Thunderbird accepts calendar locations pointing to remote servers or shares, leaking credentials.

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circl
Circl
CVE-2026-118177
27 Oct 202618:28
–circl
cve
CVE
CVE-2026-118177
27 Oct 202618:16
–cve
cvelist
Cvelist
CVE-2026-118177 Calendar discovery accepted local file and remote network share locations
27 Oct 202618:16
–cvelist
debiancve
Debian CVE
CVE-2026-118177
28 Oct 202602:19
–debiancve
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-111354
27 Oct 202618:16
–euvd
nessus
Tenable Nessus
Mozilla Thunderbird < 153.6
27 Oct 202600:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus
Mozilla Thunderbird < 159.0
27 Oct 202600:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus
Mozilla Thunderbird < 153.6
27 Oct 202600:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus
Mozilla Thunderbird < 159.0
27 Oct 202600:00
–nessus
mend
Mend
CVE-2026-118177
27 Oct 202618:16
–mend
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  - When looking for calendars in a directory on a server, during account setup or when adding a new network
    calendar, Thunderbird accepted calendar locations pointing to other servers, local files or network
    shares. A malicious server, or a network attacker when the lookup used plain HTTP, could make Thunderbird
    subscribe to such a location. On Windows this could leak the user's NTLM credentials to an attacker-
    controlled host on every calendar refresh, and changes to the calendar could be written to the attacker's
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    (CVE-2026-118177)

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        "release": "12",
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    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
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      {
        "release": "8",
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          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
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        "release": "10",
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          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
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};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');

var third_party_support = get_kb_item('Host/OS/extended-third-party');
if (!empty_or_null(third_party_support)) {
    var third_party_vendors = distro_constraints_values['third_party'];
    if (!empty_or_null(third_party_vendors)) {
        var vendor;
        foreach vendor (third_party_vendors) {
            if (vendor == third_party_support) exit(0, 'A third party management patch is available for this vulnerability from ' + vendor + '.\n');
        }
    }
}

var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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29 Oct 2026 00:00Current
5.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.7
EPSS0.00179
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