CVE-2024-11159 Information disclosure in Thunderbird

What is CVE-2024-11159?

CVE-2024-11159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird, published on 13 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Using remote content in OpenPGP encrypted messages can lead to the disclosure of plaintext. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.4.3 and Thunderbird < 132.0.1.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11159?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2024-11159?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2024-11159 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11159 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird

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• CVE-2026-84637 Calendar invitation attachments could launch local executables Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-43529 Memory corruption in Thunderbird Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-11703 Memory corruption in Thunderbird Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-11704 Memory corruption in Thunderbird Critical 9.8

All Mozilla Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-11159, DLA-3960-1, DSA-5814-1, GHSA-jm4h-wwjv-4q5c, MGASA-2024-0365, openSUSE-SU-2024:14497-1.