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CVE-2025-26696 (GCVE-0-2025-26696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-10 18:41 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:27
VLAI
Title
Crafted email message incorrectly shown as being encrypted
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.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-11 19:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 128.8 , ≤ 128.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 136 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Marcus Brinkmann
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