CVE-2018-5185 Information disclosure in Thunderbird

What is CVE-2018-5185?

CVE-2018-5185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through by user submitting an embedded form. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8 and Thunderbird < 52.8.

Weakness: CWE-311

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5185?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Thunderbird Esr, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5185?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-5185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5185 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5185, GHSA-jx89-4j89-fggc, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5185.