Insufficient Granularity of Access Control Affecting thunderbird-ESR package, versions [,128.9.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRDESR-9788173
  • published21 Apr 2025
  • disclosed15 Apr 2025
  • creditDario Weißer

Introduced: 15 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2025-3522  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1220  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird-ESR to version 128.9.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Granularity of Access Control due to the handling of the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header. An attacker can leak hashed Windows credentials by crafting a malicious attachment URL that references internal resources such as chrome:// or SMB share file:// links.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1