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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-15685

During the plaintext phase of the STARTTLS connection setup, protocol commands could have been injected and evaluated within the encrypted session.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.85%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

During the plaintext phase of the STARTTLS connection setup, protocol commands could have been injected and evaluated within the encrypted session. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.7.

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.85% probability · 56th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-77
Affected
mozilla/thunderbird
Source
security@mozilla.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.