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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting thunderbird package, versions <1:68.4.1-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-THUNDERBIRD-1560817
  • published 7 Jan 2020
  • disclosed 8 Jan 2020
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Introduced: 7 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-17016 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-79 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 thunderbird to version 1:68.4.1-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

When pasting a &lt;style&gt; tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in data exfiltration. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
6.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

6.1 medium
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SUSE

6.1 medium