CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-5185 — Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through by user submitting an embedded form

Medium CVSS 6.5

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

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.0)
Published
2018-06-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-311

Affected products

  • redhat / enterprise_linux_desktop / 6.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux_desktop / 7.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux_server / 6.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux_server / 7.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux_server_aus / 7.6
  • redhat / enterprise_linux_server_eus / 7.5

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Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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