Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1604-THUNDERBIRD-620712
  • published5 Aug 2016
  • disclosed5 Aug 2016

Introduced: 5 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

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 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.