If Thunderbird was configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP connection, and an attacker injected IMAP server responses prior to the completion of the STARTTLS handshake, then Thunderbird didn't ignore the injected data. This could have resulted in Thunderbird showing incorrect information, for example the attacker could have tricked Thunderbird to show folders that didn't exist on the IMAP server. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.12.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-29969

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-ggp3-c9px-5c4p

Published

May 24, 2022 7:10 PM

Last Modified

August 11, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.