CVE-2009-2210

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-06-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a multipart/alternative e-mail message containing a text/enhanced part that triggers access to an incorrect object type.

Affected products

Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.16; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+29)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.21; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+64)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/35561
http://secunia.com/advisories/35602
http://secunia.com/advisories/35633
http://secunia.com/advisories/35882
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022433
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-33.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1134.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35461
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.454275

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