CVE-2022-1834

Mozilla Thunderbird and 1 other: Improper Certificate Validation

CVE-2022-1834 is fixed in 7 products on 2 platforms, first by RLSA-2022:4887, released June 2, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
9.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0040
33rd percentile

When displaying the sender of an email, and the sender name contained the Braille Pattern Blank space character multiple times, Thunderbird would have displayed all the spaces. This could have been used by an attacker to send an email message with the attacker's digital signature, that was shown with an arbitrary sender email address chosen by the attacker. If the sender name started with a false email address, followed by many Braille space characters, the attacker's email address was not visible. Because Thunderbird compared the invisible sender address with the signature's email address, if the signing key or certificate was accepted by Thunderbird, the email was shown as having a valid digital signature. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.10.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 102.0 Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 102.0 Jun 29, 2022
Linux
thunderbird · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 1:91.10.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1834 Dec 22, 2022
thunderbird · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:91.10.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1834 Dec 22, 2022
thunderbird · Debian 14 1:91.10.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1834 Dec 22, 2022
thunderbird · RHEL 8 0:91.10.0-1.el8_6 RHSA-2022:4887 Jun 3, 2022
thunderbird · RHEL 9 0:91.10.0-1.el9_0 RHSA-2022:4892 Jun 3, 2022
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 thunderbird 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird · ol 8 0:91.10.0-1.0.1.el8_6 ELSA-2022-4887 Jun 6, 2022
thunderbird · ol 9 0:91.10.0-1.0.1.el9_0 ELSA-2022-4892 Jun 30, 2022
thunderbird · rocky 8 0:91.10.0-1.el8_6 RLSA-2022:4887 Jun 2, 2022
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jul 4, 2022
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Jul 4, 2022

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