Access Restriction Bypass Affecting thunderbird package, versions [,102.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRD-5425115
  • published17 Apr 2023
  • disclosed11 Apr 2023
  • creditHolger Fuhrmannek

Introduced: 11 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird to version 102.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass that allows an attacker who can convince a user to point the Mozilla Maintenance Service at a malicious SMB server to apply an unsigned update, bypassing the write-lock mechanism which is not triggered by SMB operations.

NOTE: Only Windows systems are vulnerable.

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