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CVE-2004-2226· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Mozilla Mail 1.7.1 and 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.9, when HTML-Mails is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine valid e-mail addr

Mozilla Mail 1.7.1 and 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.9, when HTML-Mails is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine valid e-mail addresses via an HTML e-mail that references a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document on the attacker's server.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 31, 2004
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.2% · 67th percentile
CWE
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Action score

20

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.2%

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Affected systems

VendorProduct
mozillathunderbird

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • mozilla thunderbird0.8
  • mozilla thunderbird1.7.1
  • mozilla thunderbird1.7.3

Same product

mozilla: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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  • CVE-2019-11704A flaw in Thunderbird's implementation of iCal causes a heap buffer overflow in icalmemory_strdup_and_dequote when processing certain email
    42Plan
  • CVE-2019-11703A flaw in Thunderbird's implementation of iCal causes a heap buffer overflow in parser_get_next_char when processing certain email messages,
    42Plan
  • CVE-2015-2740Buffer overflow in the nsXMLHttpRequest::AppendToResponseText function in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x
    42Plan
  • CVE-2013-5603Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsContentUtils::ContentIsHostIncludingDescendantOf function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR
    42Plan
  • CVE-2013-1719Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.2
    42Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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