cve-2023-3417
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-24 10:09
Modified
2024-08-02 06:55
Severity
Summary
Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.0.1 and Thunderbird < 102.13.1.
References
SourceURLTags
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaThunderbird
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