CVE-2025-26696 (GCVE-0-2025-26696)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-10 18:41
Modified
2025-03-11 19:17
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • 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 affects Thunderbird < 136 and Thunderbird < 128.8.
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Impacted products
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Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 136
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