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CVE-2004-2226 (GCVE-0-2004-2226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-07-17 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:22
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Mail 1.7.1 and 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.9, when HTML-Mails is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine valid e-mail addresses via an HTML e-mail that references a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document on the attacker's server.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.osvdb.org/11394 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/13086 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2004-11-02 00:00
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