CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-23991

If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's updated key has not yet been imported, an attacker may send an email containing a crafted version of Alice's key with an invalid subkey, Thunderbird might subsequently attempt to use the invalid subkey, and will fail to send encrypted email to Alice. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

4 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 4.9 / Impact : 4.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

6.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.6 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-13/ Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673240 Exploit Issue Tracking
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-06-24 02:15

Updated : 2021-07-08 03:50

NVD link : CVE-2021-23991

Mitre link : CVE-2021-23991

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other