USN-3997-1

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    USN-3997-1

    Published: 28 May 2019Last Modified: 29 May 2026

    Summary: thunderbird vulnerabilities

    Details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass same-origin protections, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-18511, CVE-2019-11691, CVE-2019-11692, CVE-2019-11693, CVE-2019-9797, CVE-2019-9800, CVE-2019-9817, CVE-2019-9819, CVE-2019-9820) Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5798, CVE-2019-7317) A type confusion bug was discovered with object groups and UnboxedObjects. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context after enabling the UnboxedObjects feature, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security checks. (CVE-2019-9816) It was discovered that history data could be exposed via drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from bookmarks. If a user were tricked in to dragging a specially crafted hyperlink to a bookmark toolbar or sidebar, and subsequently back in to the web content area, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11698)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3997-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18511, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-5798, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-7317, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9797, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9800, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9816, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9817, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9819, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9820, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11691, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11692, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11693, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11698

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: thunderbird

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High