CVE-2006-0884

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The WYSIWYG rendering engine ("rich mail" editor) in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to bypass javascript security settings and obtain sensitive information or cause a crash via an e-mail containing a javascript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag, which is executed when the user edits the e-mail.

Affected products

Mozilla Thunderbird: through 1.0.7; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+11)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721
http://secunia.com/advisories/19811
http://secunia.com/advisories/19821
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941
http://secunia.com/advisories/19950
http://secunia.com/advisories/20051

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