CVE-2008-5430

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Mozilla Thunderbird versión 2.0.14 no maneja apropiadamente (1) los mensajes de correo electrónico multiparte/mixtos con muchas partes MIME y posiblemente (2) los mensajes de correo electrónico con muchos encabezados "Content-type: message/rfc822;", que podrían permitir a los atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (consumo de pila u otro consumo de recursos) por medio de un mensaje de correo electrónico largo, un problema relacionado con CVE-2006-1173.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2008-12-11 CVE Reserved
2008-12-13 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-399: Resource Management Errors

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro	X_refsource_misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				2.0.0.14 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version "2.0.0.14"		-		Affected