CVE-2026-113868

Name	CVE-2026-113868
Description	When authenticating to a POP3 or SMTP server using NTLM, Thunderbird did not check whether the server's challenge was valid base64. A malicious server could send a challenge that caused Thunderbird to include uninitialized heap memory in its NTLM response, disclosing that memory to the server. A challenge consisting only of base64 padding also caused an out-of-bounds read, crashing Thunderbird. This affected accounts configured to use NTLM or GSSAPI authentication. The uninitialized memory disclosure only affected NTLM. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 158.0.1 and Thunderbird 153.5.1.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
thunderbird (PTS)	bookworm	1:140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	1:140.17.0esr-1~deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie	1:140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	1:140.17.0esr-1~deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	1:153.5.0esr-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
thunderbird	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-115/#CVE-2026-113868