Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-26970 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-787

Summary

When reading SMTP server status codes, Thunderbird writes an integer value to a position on the stack that is intended to contain just one byte. Depending on processor architecture and stack layout, this leads to stack corruption that may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.5.1.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
420

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)