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CVE-2019-11755

thunderbird: spoofing a message author via a crafted S/MIME

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 30, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing