Improper Certificate Validation Affecting thunderbird package, versions <91.10.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-THUNDERBIRD-8489725
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed22 Dec 2022

Introduced: 22 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-1834  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 thunderbird to version 91.10.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

When displaying the sender of an email, and the sender name contained the Braille Pattern Blank space character multiple times, Thunderbird would have displayed all the spaces. This could have been used by an attacker to send an email message with the attacker's digital signature, that was shown with an arbitrary sender email address chosen by the attacker. If the sender name started with a false email address, followed by many Braille space characters, the attacker's email address was not visible. Because Thunderbird compared the invisible sender address with the signature's email address, if the signing key or certificate was accepted by Thunderbird, the email was shown as having a valid digital signature. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.10.

CVSS Scores

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