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CVE-2024-1936

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-922

Description

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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.8.1.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 115.8.1 — fixed in 115.8.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Thunderbird 115.8.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860977
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00022.html
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-11/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860977
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00022.html
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-11/

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