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High USN-5663-1 12 CVEs

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published Oct 7, 2022 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an
attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service,
spoof the mouse pointer position, obtain sensitive information, spoof the
contents of the addressbar, bypass security restrictions, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-2505, CVE-2022-36318, CVE-2022-36319,
CVE-2022-38472, CVE-2022-38473, CVE-2022-38476 CVE-2022-38477,
CVE-2022-38478)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. An attacker could
potentially exploit these in order to determine when a user opens a
specially crafted message. (CVE-2022-3032, CVE-2022-3034)

It was discovered that Thunderbird did not correctly handle HTML messages
that contain a meta tag in some circumstances. If a user were tricked into
replying to a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially
exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-3033)

A security issue was discovered with the Matrix SDK in Thunderbird. An
attacker sharing a room with a user could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-36059)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS thunderbird 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS thunderbird 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS thunderbird 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Vulnerabilities 12

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2505
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3032
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3033
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3034
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-36059
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-36318
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-36319
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38472
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38473
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38476
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38477
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38478