Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-THUNDERBIRD-648871
published10 Sept 2020
disclosed14 Mar 2012

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Introduced: 14 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-0458 (opens in a new tab) CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.