RHSA-2025:8784 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

• thunderbird: JavaScript Execution via Spoofed PDF Attachment and file:/// Link (CVE-2025-3909)
• thunderbird: Sender Spoofing via Malformed From Header in Thunderbird (CVE-2025-3875)
• thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links (CVE-2025-3877)
• thunderbird: Tracking Links in Attachments Bypassed Remote Content Blocking (CVE-2025-3932)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2366283 - CVE-2025-3909 thunderbird: JavaScript Execution via Spoofed PDF Attachment and file:/// Link
• BZ - 2366287 - CVE-2025-3875 thunderbird: Sender Spoofing via Malformed From Header in Thunderbird
• BZ - 2366291 - CVE-2025-3877 thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links
• BZ - 2366297 - CVE-2025-3932 thunderbird: Tracking Links in Attachments Bypassed Remote Content Blocking

CVEs

• CVE-2025-3875
• CVE-2025-3877
• CVE-2025-3909
• CVE-2025-3932

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important