Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,128.10.1)[130.0b1,138.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-10231817
  • published23 May 2025
  • disclosed14 May 2025
  • creditDario Weißer

Introduced: 14 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-3909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-290  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 128.10.1, 138.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing via nested email attachment. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript code by embedding it into malicious attachment and setting its content type to application/pdf.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1