FKIE_CVE-2025-26696

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-10 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:02
Severity
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Summary
Certain crafted MIME email messages that claimed to contain an encrypted OpenPGP message, which instead contained an OpenPGP signed message, were wrongly shown as being encrypted. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 136 and Thunderbird 128.8.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864205Issue Tracking
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-17/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-18/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla thunderbird *
mozilla thunderbird *
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