CVE-2019-11755 (GCVE-0-2019-11755)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-09-27 17:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:03
VLAI
Summary
A crafted S/MIME message consisting of an inner encryption layer and an outer SignedData layer was shown as having a valid digital signature, although the signer might have had no access to the contents of the encrypted message, and might have stripped a different signature from the encrypted message. Previous versions had only suppressed showing a digital signature for messages with an outer multipart/signed layer. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.1.1.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Spoofing a message author via a crafted S/MIME message
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 504 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/24 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4571 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4202-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 68.1.1 (custom)
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