Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird (opens in a new tab)
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- published6 May 2021
- disclosed24 Jun 2021
Introduced: 6 May 2021
CVE-2021-29950 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.