Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.7 Rust Regex Crate incorrect regex

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.7. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Rust Regex Crate. This manipulation causes incorrect regex. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-24713. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.7 (Mail Client Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Rust Regex Crate. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incorrect regex vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-185. The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared. As an impact it is known to affect availability.

The weakness was shared 04/05/2022 by Addison Crump and Jan-Erik Rediger as Bug 1758509 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The advisory contains:

The rust regex crate did not properly prevent crafted regular expressions from taking an arbitrary amount of time during parsing. If an attacker was able to supply input to this crate, they could have caused a denial of service in the browser.
This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-24713. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/10/2024).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208650 (CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:1302)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 91.8 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208650). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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CNA Base Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Incorrect regex
CWE: CWE-185 / CWE-697
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 208650
Nessus Name: CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:1302)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Thunderbird 91.8
Patch: github.com

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02/10/2022 🔍
04/05/2022 +53 days 🔍
04/05/2022 +0 days 🔍
09/30/2022 +178 days 🔍
04/29/2025 +942 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 1758509
Researcher: Addison Crump, Jan-Erik Rediger
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-24713 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-24713
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-209929

Entryinfo

Created: 09/30/2022 09:17
Updated: 04/29/2025 13:02
Changes: 09/30/2022 09:17 (18), 09/30/2022 09:20 (28), 10/26/2022 12:13 (3), 10/26/2022 12:21 (19), 10/26/2022 12:28 (1), 10/10/2024 02:22 (16), 04/29/2025 13:02 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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