Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132 library-ms File ui layer

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. Impacted is an unknown function of the component library-ms File Handler. Such manipulation leads to ui layer. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-11693. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component library-ms File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a ui layer vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1021. The web application does not restrict or incorrectly restricts frame objects or UI layers that belong to another application or domain, which can lead to user confusion about which interface the user is interacting with. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .library-ms files. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-11693 since 11/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. 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 11/27/2024).

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). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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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

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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