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CVE-2018-5161

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5161 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird (ESR < 52.8 and < 52.8) where specially crafted message headers can lead to a denial-of-service condition, causing the Thunderbird process to hang upon receipt. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) requires user interaction (UI:R) and network access (AV:N) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), primarily impacting availability (A:L) without compromising confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current exploitability and attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.8.0-2.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.8.0-1.el7_5
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-5161Moderate

Mozilla: Hang via malformed headers

May 18, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1725
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1726
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions Required
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-13
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3660-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4209
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2018-13
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1040946
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry