It was possible to craft an email that showed a tracking link as an attachment. If the user attempted to open the attachment, Thunderbird automatically accessed the link. The configuration to block remote content did not prevent that. Thunderbird has been fixed to no longer allow access to web pages listed in the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header of an email. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.10.1 and Thunderbird < 138.0.1.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2025:8196 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8196
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2025:8203 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8203