Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2020-12398 (CCN-182981)

Assigned:2020-06-02
Published:2020-06-02
Updated:2022-01-04
Summary:If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0.
CVSS v3 Severity:7.5 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
6.5 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
7.5 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
6.5 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
7.5 High (REDHAT CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
6.5 Medium (REDHAT Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availibility (A): High
CVSS v2 Severity:4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
7.8 High (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
Vulnerability Type:CWE-319
CWE-200
Vulnerability Consequences:Obtain Information
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2020-12398

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613623

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
thunderbird-cve202012398-info-disc(182981)

Source: UBUNTU
Type: Third Party Advisory
USN-4421-1

Source: CCN
Type: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-22
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68.9.0

Source: MISC
Type: Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-22/

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version < 68.9.0)

    • Configuration 2:
  • cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 1:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 2:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::client:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 3:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::server:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 4:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 5:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 6:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 7:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 8:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::client:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 9:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::server:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration RedHat 10:
  • cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation:*:*:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    Oval Definitions
    Definition IDClassTitleLast Modified
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51563
    P
    		Security update for grub2 (Important)
    2022-11-21
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:645
    P
    		Security update for php7 (Moderate) (in QA)
    2022-10-04
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:202012398
    V
    		CVE-2020-12398
    2022-09-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3546
    P
    		libICE6-1.0.8-12.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3143
    P
    		libXpm4-3.5.11-5.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3246
    P
    		libquicktime0-1.2.4-14.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3237
    P
    		libpoppler-glib8-0.43.0-16.15.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3207
    P
    		liblzo2-2-2.08-1.13 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3196
    P
    		libjpeg62-32bit-62.2.0-31.14.2 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3188
    P
    		libimobiledevice6-1.2.0-7.31 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3169
    P
    		libexempi3-2.2.1-5.7.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3264
    P
    		libtag1-1.9.1-1.218 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3155
    P
    		libarchive13-3.1.2-26.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3261
    P
    		libssh2-1-1.4.3-20.9.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3148
    P
    		libXv1-1.0.10-7.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3260
    P
    		libsrtp1-1.5.2-3.2.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3258
    P
    		libspice-server1-0.12.8-12.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-28
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:95176
    P
    		MozillaThunderbird-91.8.0-150200.8.65.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-22
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:94966
    P
    		libquicktime-1.2.4+git20180804.fff99cd-1.19 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-06-22
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4734
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2022-05-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4712
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 27 for SLE 12 SP5) (Important)
    2022-03-29
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4704
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 18 for SLE 12 SP5) (Important)
    2022-03-29
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:111905
    P
    		MozillaThunderbird-91.1.1-1.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2022-01-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4742
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2022-01-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64841
    P
    		Security update for apache2 (Important)
    2022-01-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70857
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important) (in QA)
    2022-01-14
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73746
    P
    		Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)
    2021-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51701
    P
    		Security update for java-1_8_0-openjdk (Important)
    2021-11-23
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:105478
    P
    		MozillaThunderbird-91.1.1-1.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-10-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51669
    P
    		Security update for sqlite3 (Important)
    2021-09-23
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64569
    P
    		Security update for libesmtp (Important)
    2021-09-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73867
    P
    		Security update for fetchmail (Moderate)
    2021-08-20
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63417
    P
    		nodejs14-14.16.0-5.9.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-08-10
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63124
    P
    		google-compute-engine-oslogin-20190801-4.38.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-08-10
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67176
    P
    		Security update for dbus-1 (Important)
    2021-07-12
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64729
    P
    		Security update for dbus-1 (Important)
    2021-07-12
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:101679
    P
    		Security update for kubevirt (Moderate)
    2021-07-09
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51595
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 36 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-06-18
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70424
    P
    		Security update for caribou (Important)
    2021-06-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5719
    P
    		Security update for slurm (Important)
    2021-06-04
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5049
    P
    		Security update for djvulibre (Important)
    2021-05-31
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5687
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2021-05-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5036
    P
    		Security update for lz4 (Important)
    2021-05-14
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5682
    P
    		Security update for java-11-openjdk (Important)
    2021-05-11
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:69637
    P
    		Security update for stunnel (Important)
    2021-05-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5028
    P
    		Security update for samba (Important)
    2021-04-29
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5020
    P
    		Security update for ImageMagick (Moderate)
    2021-04-20
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5651
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2021-04-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5013
    P
    		Security update for cifs-utils (Moderate)
    2021-04-13
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64462
    P
    		Security update for fwupdate (Important)
    2021-04-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64461
    P
    		Security update for flatpak, libostree, xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (Important)
    2021-04-07
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64671
    P
    		Security update for ruby2.5 (Important)
    2021-03-24
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67081
    P
    		Security update for evolution-data-server (Moderate)
    2021-03-24
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51185
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 35 for SLE 12 SP2) (Important)
    2021-03-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70532
    P
    		Security update for screen (Important)
    2021-02-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51155
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 36 for SLE 12 SP2) (Important)
    2021-02-10
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4732
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Moderate)
    2021-01-12
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:69532
    P
    		Security update for dovecot23 (Important)
    2021-01-05
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64325
    P
    		Security update for ceph (Moderate)
    2021-01-05
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4962
    P
    		Security update for openssl-1_0_0 (Important)
    2020-12-09
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3915
    P
    		gtk2-devel-2.24.31-9.6.28 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62918
    P
    		perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-iXhash2-2.05-10.19 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62914
    P
    		pam-devel-32bit-1.3.0-6.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62921
    P
    		perl-Tk-devel-804.034-1.44 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63620
    P
    		gstreamer-plugins-ugly-1.16.2-1.75 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62946
    P
    		cvs-1.12.12-2.30 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3902
    P
    		gimp-devel-2.8.18-9.3.26 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4856
    P
    		Security update for squid (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4837
    P
    		Security update for postgresql10 (Moderate)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4822
    P
    		Security update for gnuplot (Moderate)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4777
    P
    		Security update for bind (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:5000
    P
    		Security update for tomcat (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4993
    P
    		Security update for nodejs10 (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4986
    P
    		Security update for nodejs10 (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4987
    P
    		Security update for jakarta-commons-fileupload (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4888
    P
    		Security update for libvirt (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4869
    P
    		Security update for rmt-server (Moderate)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4854
    P
    		Security update for qemu (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4808
    P
    		Security update for dovecot23 (Moderate)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4762
    P
    		Security update for apache2-mod_jk (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4954
    P
    		Security update for python3 (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:4929
    P
    		Security update for xen (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51017
    P
    		Security update for xen (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52389
    P
    		Security update for libraw (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74916
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50995
    P
    		Security update for spice-gtk (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52317
    P
    		Security update for postgresql10 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:53818
    P
    		Security update for ffmpeg (Low)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52259
    P
    		Security update for raptor (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52151
    P
    		Security update for google-compute-engine (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51867
    P
    		Security update for ppp (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51423
    P
    		Security update for python3 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52542
    P
    		Security update for slurm (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52461
    P
    		Security update for gnutls (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:53856
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51047
    P
    		Security update for docker-runc (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52424
    P
    		Security update for php7 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72990
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51025
    P
    		Security update for python-setuptools (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52351
    P
    		Security update for php7 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66209
    P
    		Security update for nodejs10 (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49660
    P
    		libcolord-gtk-devel on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74066
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67507
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63996
    P
    		Security update for libexif (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63767
    P
    		Recommended update for NetworkManager (Low)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52285
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50762
    P
    		Security update for ucode-intel (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74783
    P
    		Security update for cloud-init (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50669
    P
    		Security update for nghttp2 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:53892
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50425
    P
    		Security update for libgcrypt (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50266
    P
    		Security update for ucode-intel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50994
    P
    		Security update for binutils (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50166
    P
    		libwmf-0_2-7 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50015
    P
    		libspice-server-devel on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51009
    P
    		Security update for kernel-firmware (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49808
    P
    		rpm-build on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50935
    P
    		Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49680
    P
    		libmp3lame-devel on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50903
    P
    		Security update for glibc (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70744
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 4 for SLE 15 SP2) (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49661
    P
    		libdjvulibre-devel on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50836
    P
    		Security update for ceph (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:53782
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52226
    P
    		Security update for tomcat (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72872
    P
    		Security update for salt (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52118
    P
    		Security update for rubygem-bundler (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66301
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51835
    P
    		Security update for krb5 (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74192
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67407
    P
    		Security update for tiff (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51024
    P
    		Security update for python-pip (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51392
    P
    		Security update for ncurses (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52506
    P
    		Security update for wpa_supplicant (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52425
    P
    		Security update for php7 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:52347
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:108345
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:102934
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:109600
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:119740
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:96262
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:75575
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-07-08
    oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20202614
    P
    		RHSA-2020:2614: thunderbird security update (Important)
    2020-06-22
    oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20202615
    P
    		RHSA-2020:2615: thunderbird security update (Important)
    2020-06-22
    oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20202613
    P
    		RHSA-2020:2613: thunderbird security update (Important)
    2020-06-19
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:99868
    P
    		 (Moderate)
    2020-06-18
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:110578
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-06-12
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:93377
    P
    		Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)
    2020-06-10
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