CVE-2022-2226

MEDIUM

Thunderbird < 91.11 and < 102 - Digital Signature Replay Attack via Date Mismatch

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An OpenPGP digital signature includes information about the date when the signature was created. When displaying an email that contains a digital signature, the email's date will be shown. If the dates were different, then Thunderbird didn't report the email as having an invalid signature. If an attacker performed a replay attack, in which an old email with old contents are resent at a later time, it could lead the victim to believe that the statements in the email are current. Fixed versions of Thunderbird will require that the signature's date roughly matches the displayed date of the email. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102 and Thunderbird < 91.11.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1775441

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 32.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-294
Status published
Products (2)
mozilla/thunderbird 101.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 91.11
Published Dec 22, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026