CVE-2022-45414 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Thunderbird
Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 22
Latest updateFeb 6
Description
If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attribute or an OBJECT tag with a DATA attribute, a network request to the referenced remote URL was performed, regardless of a configuration to block remote content. An image loaded from the POSTER attribute was shown in the composer window. These issues could have given an attacker additional capabilities when targetting releases that did not yet hav…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages5 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-gvhr-fq94-q7h9: If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attr↗2022-12-22
OSV▶
CVE-2022-45414: If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attr↗2022-12-22
📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat▶
Mozilla: Quoting from an HTML email with certain tags will trigger network requests and load remote content, regardless of a configuration to block remote content↗2022-11-30
Debian▶
CVE-2022-45414: thunderbird - If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the ...↗2022