CVE-2021-23993

Summary

An attacker may perform a DoS attack to prevent a user from sending encrypted email to a correspondent. If an attacker creates a crafted OpenPGP key with a subkey that has an invalid self signature, and the Thunderbird user imports the crafted key, then Thunderbird may try to use the invalid subkey, but the RNP library rejects it from being used, causing encryption to fail. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified < 78.9.1affected

Weaknesses

  • Inability to send encrypted OpenPGP email after importing a crafted OpenPGP key

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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