CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0884

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The WYSIWYG rendering engine (rich mail editor) in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to bypass JavaScript security settings. By sending an email containing a JavaScript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag, the code executes when the user edits the email, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure or a crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes potential leakage of sensitive data or destabilization of the email system through execution of malicious JavaScript code during email editing by the user.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade Mozilla Thunderbird to a version later than 1.0.7, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The WYSIWYG rendering engine ("rich mail" editor) in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to bypass javascript security settings and obtain sensitive information or cause a crash via an e-mail containing a javascript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag, which is executed when the user edits the e-mail.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS