Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-THUNDERBIRD-1297769
  • published22 Jun 2021
  • disclosed24 Jun 2021

Introduced: 22 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-29956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (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.

OpenPGP secret keys that were imported using Thunderbird version 78.8.1 up to version 78.10.1 were stored unencrypted on the user's local disk. The master password protection was inactive for those keys. Version 78.10.2 will restore the protection mechanism for newly imported keys, and will automatically protect keys that had been imported using affected Thunderbird versions. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.2.