🛡️ USN-5435-1 — thunderbird

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were

tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an

attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service,

bypass permission prompts, obtain sensitive information, bypass security

restrictions, cause user confusion, or execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2022-29909, CVE-2022-29911, CVE-2022-29912, CVE-2022-29913,

CVE-2022-29914, CVE-2022-29916, CVE-2022-29917)

It was discovered that Thunderbird would show the wrong security status

after viewing an attached message that is signed or encrypted. An attacker

could potentially exploit this by tricking the user into trusting the

authenticity of a message. (CVE-2022-1520)

It was discovered that the methods of an Array object could be corrupted

as a result of prototype pollution by sending a message to the parent

process. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website

in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this to execute

JavaScript in a privileged context. (CVE-2022-1529, CVE-2022-1802)