CVE-2021-23993

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.051

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-23991,CVE-2021-23993 are fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird (78.9.1)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-23991,CVE-2021-23993 are fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird (x64) (78.9.1)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-23993,CVE-2021-29949 are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 78.9.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-23991,CVE-2021-23993 are fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (78.9.1)Mac
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-23993,CVE-2021-29949 are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac 78.9.0Mac
(RHSA-2021:1192) thunderbird security update thunderbird-78.9.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:1193) thunderbird security update thunderbird-78.9.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:1193) thunderbird security update thunderbird-debugsource-78.9.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpmLinux
thunderbird security update(DSA-4897-1) thunderbird_78.10.0-1~deb10u1_i386.debLinux
thunderbird security update(DSA-4897-1) thunderbird_78.10.0-1~deb10u1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-4995-1) thunderbird_78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-4995-1) thunderbird_78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.10.2_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-4995-1) thunderbird_78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.21.04.2_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-4995-2) thunderbird_78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2_i386.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-4995-2) thunderbird_78.11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-319077Mozilla Thunderbird (78.9.1)
PATCH-319078Mozilla Thunderbird (x64) (78.9.1)
PATCH-611353Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (128.12.0)
PATCH-611807Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (142.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234