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CVE-2025-3909: Thunderbird's handling of the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header can be exploited to execute

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium · fixed in 138.0.1 : update affected systems when convenient.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 01:41 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 138.0.1, 128.10.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 May 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

This vulnerability is fixed in Thunderbird versions 128.10.1 and 138.0.1. Users and administrators should update to these or later versions to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation actions are required once updated, as per the Mozilla advisories.

Description

Thunderbird versions prior to 128.10.1 and 138.0.1 contain a vulnerability in the handling of the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a nested email attachment with a spoofed content type that Thunderbird may render as HTML rather than PDF. Because Thunderbird auto-saves attachments to /tmp and links them via the file:/// protocol, embedded JavaScript can execute in the file context without requiring the user to download the file. This vulnerability is addressed in Thunderbird 128.10.1 and 138.0.1.

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