CVE-2004-2226 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Mail 1.7.1 and 1.7.3, and Thunderbird prior to 0.9, where enabling HTML-Mails allows remote attackers to validate email addresses. This low-complexity attack, requiring no authentication, leverages an HTML email referencing a CSS document on an attacker's server to confirm email address validity, resulting in a partial confidentiality impact. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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