6.5

CVE-2022-29913: mozilla thunderbird Improper Authorization

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-29913DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29913
Published 22-12-2022Last modified 15-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-29913 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Improper Authorization vulnerability in mozilla thunderbird. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.44%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 3
DLA-3020-1DSA-5141-1MGASA-2022-0163OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12045-1RHSA-2022:1724RHSA-2022:1725

Timeline

  1. 22-12-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The parent process would not properly check whether the Speech Synthesis feature is enabled, when receiving instructions from a child process. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.9.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.44%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

37%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.43% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.44%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • thunderbird< 1:91.9.0-1
Mozilla1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • thunderbird< 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 | < 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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