Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting thunderbird package, versions <1:78.9.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-THUNDERBIRD-5697453
  • published21 Apr 2021
  • disclosed24 Jun 2021

Introduced: 21 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-29950  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 thunderbird to version 1:78.9.0-1 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:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Thunderbird unprotects a secret OpenPGP key prior to using it for a decryption, signing or key import task. If the task runs into a failure, the secret key may remain in memory in its unprotected state. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.8.1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1