Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-12398  

A security downgrade issue has been found in Thunderbird before 68.9.0. If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Man-in-the-middle

Description

A security downgrade issue has been found in Thunderbird before 68.9.0. If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection.

AVG-1179 thunderbird 68.8.1-1 68.9.0-1 High Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-22/#CVE-2020-12398
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613623