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CVE-2018-18509

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18509 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 60.5.1, where a flaw in S/MIME signature verification allows an attacker to craft emails with arbitrary content that appear to have a valid digital signature. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, and the primary impact is a low integrity compromise, as an attacker can deceive recipients about the authenticity of email content. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 60.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:60.6.1-1.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:60.6.1-1.el7_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird-0:60.6.1-1.el8
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-18509Moderate

thunderbird: flaw in verification of S/MIME signature resulting in signature spoofing

Feb 14, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00043.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1144
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
github.com / RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2019-06
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory