Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379282
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. If a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 60 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting in Thunderbird 60. The new master password is added only on the new file. This could allow the exposure of stored password data outside of user expectations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5.

CVSS Scores

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