cve-2021-29969
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-05 19:46
Modified
2024-08-03 22:24
Severity ?
Summary
If Thunderbird was configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP connection, and an attacker injected IMAP server responses prior to the completion of the STARTTLS handshake, then Thunderbird didn't ignore the injected data. This could have resulted in Thunderbird showing incorrect information, for example the attacker could have tricked Thunderbird to show folders that didn't exist on the IMAP server. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.12.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682370Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-30/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaThunderbird
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