CVE-2024-1936 — Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information in Mozilla Thunderbird
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 4
Latest updateMar 5
Description
The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently assigned to an arbitrary other email message in Thunderbird's local cache. Consequently, when replying to the contaminated email message, the user might accidentally leak the confidential subject to a third-party. While this update fixes the bug and avoids future message contamination, it does not automatically repair existing contaminations. Users are advised to use the repair folder functionality, which is available…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-8v87-67f4-56h2: The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently assigned to an arbitrary other email message in Thunderbird's local cac↗2024-03-05
CVEList▶
CVE-2024-1936: The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently assigned to an arbitrary other email message in Thunderbird's local cac↗2024-03-04
OSV▶
CVE-2024-1936: The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently assigned to an arbitrary other email message in Thunderbird's local cac↗2024-03-04
📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2024-1936: thunderbird - The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently a...↗2024