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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0149 json

Thunderbird 0.6 through 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 through 1.7.3 does not obey the network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews preference, which could…

published 2005-01-29 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0150

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Thunderbird 0.6 through 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 through 1.7.3 does not obey the network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews preference, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the user's intended privacy and security policy by using cookies in e-mail messages.

Patch / fix

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.3
  • evolution RHEL 4 2.0.2-14
  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0-1.1.EL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:335RHSA-2005:094

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0149 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, thunderbird 1.0-1.1.EL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, thunderbird 1.0-1.1.EL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, thunderbird 1.0-1.1.EL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, thunderbird 1.0-1.1.EL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:335

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.