CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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5.3 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 (Mail Client Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.
The weakness was disclosed 12/13/2008 with Recurity Labs (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-5430 since 12/11/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 10/22/2018).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The entry 45392 is pretty similar.
Product
Type
Vendor
Name
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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OpenVAS ID: 800502
OpenVAS Name: Thunderbird DoS attacks via malformed MIME emails (Linux)
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
12/08/2008 🔍12/11/2008 🔍
12/13/2008 🔍
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03/17/2015 🔍
10/22/2018 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgAdvisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Organization: Recurity Labs
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2008-5430 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 32869 - Mozilla Thunderbird Malformed MIME Message Denial Of Service Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 10/22/2018 07:00
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (50), 10/22/2018 07:00 (6)
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