7.5

CVE-2019-11755: mozilla thunderbird

Modified
AliasesMGASA-2019-0292UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11755DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11755
Published 27-09-2019Last modified 04-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-11755 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mozilla thunderbird. EPSS estimates a 1.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.29%
0%100%
Low · +0.21 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 6

Timeline

  1. 27-09-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A crafted S/MIME message consisting of an inner encryption layer and an outer SignedData layer was shown as having a valid digital signature, although the signer might have had no access to the contents of the encrypted message, and might have stripped a different signature from the encrypted message. Previous versions had only suppressed showing a digital signature for messages with an outer multipart/signed layer. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.1.1.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.29%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

70%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.21 pp

From 1.07% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Mageia2 products
  • thunderbird< 68.1.1-1.mga7
  • thunderbird-l10n< 68.1.1-1.mga7
Debian1 product
  • thunderbird< 1:68.2.1-1
Mozilla1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • thunderbird< 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 | < 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

4 vendors · 5 products

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