Mozilla Thunderbird Popup Notification clickjacking

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird. It has been classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Popup Notification Handler. This manipulation causes clickjacking. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-0750. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird (Mail Client Software) (unknown version) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Popup Notification Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a clickjacking vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-451. The user interface (UI) does not properly represent critical information to the user, allowing the information - or its source - to be obscured or spoofed. This is often a component in phishing attacks. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A bug in popup notifications delay calculation could have made it possible for an attacker to trick a user into granting permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 122, Firefox ESR < 115.7, and Thunderbird < 115.7.

The weakness was released 01/23/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-0750 since 01/19/2024. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/19/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1566.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239868 (TencentOS Server 3: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0054)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239868). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Mozilla

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• Thunderbird

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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