CVE-2018-5184 — Inadequate Encryption Strength in Mozilla Thunderbird

CWE-326 — Inadequate Encryption StrengthCWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
11
Mozilla ThunderbirdMozilla Thunderbird ESRCanonical Ubuntu Linux+8 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Using remote content in encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plaintext. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8 and Thunderbird < 52.8.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 52.8
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 52.8.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbird_esrunspecified — 52.8
▶Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:52.8.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-p5x3-568x-9fq9: Using remote content in encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plaintext↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-5184: Using remote content in encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plaintext↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2018-5184: Using remote content in encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plaintext↗2018-06-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2018-05-25
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Full plaintext recovery in S/MIME via chosen-ciphertext attack↗2018-05-18
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Debian
CVE-2018-5184: thunderbird - Using remote content in encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plainte...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5184 Mozilla: Full plaintext recovery in S/MIME via chosen-ciphertext attack↗2018-05-21
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