CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-23993

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Published: Jun 24, 2021 | Modified: Aug 08, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An attacker may perform a DoS attack to prevent a user from sending encrypted email to a correspondent. If an attacker creates a crafted OpenPGP key with a subkey that has an invalid self signature, and the Thunderbird user imports the crafted key, then Thunderbird may try to use the invalid subkey, but the RNP library rejects it from being used, causing encryption to fail. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

Weakness

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Thunderbird Mozilla * 78.9.1 (excluding)
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu focal *
Thunderbird Ubuntu groovy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu hirsute *
Thunderbird Ubuntu impish *
Thunderbird Ubuntu jammy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu kinetic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lunar *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:78.9.1-1.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat thunderbird-0:78.9.1-1.el8_3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:78.9.1-1.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:78.9.1-1.el8_2 *

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