CVE-2020-12398

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 9, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Apr 28, 2020

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ThunderbirdMozilla	before 68.9.0Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-22/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613623
USN-4421-1vendor-advisory

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