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CVE-2019-11755

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

A crafted S/MIME message consisting of an inner encryption layer and an outer SignedData layer was shown as having a valid digital signature, although the signer might have had no access to the contents of the encrypted message, and might have stripped a different signature from the encrypted message. Previous versions had only suppressed showing a digital signature for messages with an outer multipart/signed layer. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.1.1.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Mozilla — Thunderbird

CWEs

References

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