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HistoryMar 06, 2024 - 1:42 p.m.

CVE-2024-1936

2024-03-0613:42:35
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mozilla
thunderbird
subject contamination
email security
encryption
flaw
confidential information
security advisory

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as follows: The encrypted subject of an email message could be incorrectly and permanently assigned to an arbitrary other email message in Thunderbird’s local cache. Consequently, when replying to the contaminated email message, the user might accidentally leak the confidential subject to a third party. While this update fixes the bug and avoids future message contamination, it does not automatically repair existing contaminations. Users are advised to use the repair folder functionality, which is available from the context menu of email folders, which will erase incorrect subject assignments.