QID 377602

Date Published: 2022-09-22

QID 377602: Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2022-42)

Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a mobile version for Android.

Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to
CVE-2022-40959: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
CVE-2022-40960: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
CVE-2022-40958: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix
CVE-2022-40956: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass
CVE-2022-40957: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
CVE-2022-3155: Attachment files saved to disk on macOS could be executed without warning
CVE-2022-40962: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.3

Affected Products:
Prior to Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated) :
This checks for vulnerable version of Thunderbird.


Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Vendor has released fix to address these vulnerabilities. Refer to MFSA2022-42 or later
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 377602

    CVE-2022-40957 | CVE-2022-3155 | CVE-2022-40960 | CVE-2022-40956 | CVE-2022-40962 | CVE-2022-40959 | CVE-2022-40958 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    MFSA2022-42 URL Logo www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/
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