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 from the context menu of email folders, which will erase incorrect subject assignments. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.8.1.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1936

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 0.0

Affected Products

Vendor: Mozilla

Product: Thunderbird

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.81% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860977
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00022.html
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-11/

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