CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-29950
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312
Description
Thunderbird unprotects a secret OpenPGP key prior to using it for a decryption, signing or key import task. If the task runs into a failure, the secret key may remain in memory in its unprotected state. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.8.1.
Affected configurations
• mozilla thunderbird (< 78.8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673239 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-17/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673239 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-17/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory