CVE-2026-126135

NameCVE-2026-126135
DescriptionIf an attacker was able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on an SMTP or POP3 server connection using STARTTLS, the attacker could inject server responses before the TLS handshake completed. Thunderbird would process these responses after the handshake, as if they had been received from the server over the encrypted connection. This could be used to make Thunderbird report a different outcome for sending or fetching mail, and to show attacker-controlled text in error messages. The encrypted connection itself was not compromised, and credentials were not exposed. Connections using SSL/TLS instead of STARTTLS were not affected. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 160 and Thunderbird 153.7.
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
thunderbird (PTS)bookworm1:140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)1:153.6.0esr-1~deb12u2vulnerable
trixie1:140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)1:153.6.0esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
forky1:153.5.0esr-1vulnerable
sid1:153.7.0esr-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1:153.7.0esr-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-129/#CVE-2026-126135

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