An attacker may perform a DoS attack to prevent a user from sending encrypted email to a correspondent. If an attacker creates a crafted OpenPGP key with a subkey that has an invalid self signature, and the Thunderbird user imports the crafted key, then Thunderbird may try to use the invalid subkey, but the RNP library rejects it from being used, causing encryption to fail. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-06-24T13:26:39

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:10.002Z

Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-23993

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-24T14:15:09.257

Modified: 2023-08-08T14:22:24.967

Link: CVE-2021-23993

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-23993 - Bugzilla