1983226 - Thunderbird open when I skip password prompt for more than 4 times ( 140.1.1esr (64-bit) )

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1566458

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Anirban Dutta]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0

Steps to reproduce:

Enable & disable master password

Actual results:

Thunderbird ( 140.1.1esr (64-bit) ) open when I skip password prompt for more than 4 times. I password protect thunderbird & when I try to open it's prompted for password BUT when I skip it by click on X for more than 4 times Thunderbird opened & I'm able to mail & read mail. It's a security bug, so please fix this.

Expected results:

Without master password, never open thunderbird

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Primary password is not designed to protect messages.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/protect-your-thunderbird-passwords-primary-password
Also described in bug 1566458.

Comment 2

[Sunil Mayya]

Attachment: Bug 1983226 - Increase BackgroundFileSaver async copy segment size to 1MB. r=#necko-reviewers,keeler

Comment 3

[Phabricator Automation]

Comment on attachment 9538717 [details]
Bug 1983226 - Increase BackgroundFileSaver async copy segment size to 1MB. r=#necko-reviewers,keeler

Revision D263312 was moved to bug 1983225. Setting attachment 9538717 [details] to obsolete.