Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132 Add-On Signature loadManifestFromFile signature verification

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. This vulnerability affects the function loadManifestFromFile of the component Add-On Signature Handler. The manipulation results in signature verification. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-11696. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. Affected is the function loadManifestFromFile of the component Add-On Signature Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a signature verification vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-347. The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The application failed to account for exceptions thrown by the `loadManifestFromFile` method during add-on signature verification. This flaw, triggered by an invalid or unsupported extension manifest, could have caused runtime errors that disrupted the signature validation process. As a result, the enforcement of signature validation for unrelated add-ons may have been bypassed. Signature validation in this context is used to ensure that third-party applications on the user's computer have not tampered with the user's extensions, limiting the impact of this issue. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.

The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-11696 since 11/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/02/2024).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211877 (Mozilla Firefox ESR < 128.5), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 133 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211877). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Mozilla

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• Thunderbird

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• 132

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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