Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,138.0b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-10231783
  • published23 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Apr 2025
  • creditSeongyun Jeong

Introduced: 29 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-4090  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 138.0b1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File due to the exposure of internal library paths. An attacker can potentially access sensitive information by exploiting this path disclosure.

Note: This is only exploitable in Thunderbird/Firefox for Android where potentially sensitive library locations were logged via Logcat

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1