A potentially exploitable crash in TransportSecurityInfo used for SSL can be triggered by data stored in the local cache in the user…

Description

A potentially exploitable crash in TransportSecurityInfo used for SSL can be triggered by data stored in the local cache in the user profile directory. This issue is only exploitable in combination with another vulnerability allowing an attacker to write data into the local cache or from locally installed malware. This issue also triggers a non-exploitable startup crash for users switching between the Nightly and Release versions of Firefox if the same profile is used. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.2.1, Firefox ESR < 60.2.1, and Firefox < 62.0.2.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.

Weakness

• Crash in TransportSecurityInfo due to cached data
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · Thunderbird

  • affected unspecified – < 60.2.1

• Mozilla · Firefox ESR

  • affected unspecified – < 60.2.1

• Mozilla · Firefox

  • affected unspecified – < 62.0.2

References (18)

• GLSA-201810-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 105380 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20181112 [SECURITY] [DLA 1575-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• GLSA-201811-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• USN-3778-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-4327 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 1041700 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-23/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:2835 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:3403 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 1041701 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:3458 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-22/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-4304 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:2834 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-3793-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490585 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 08:30 UTC.