It is possible to spoof the filename of an attachment and display an arbitrary attachment name. This could lead to a user opening a remote attachment which is a different file type than expected. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8 and Thunderbird < 52.8.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040946 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725 | Third Party Advisory |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411732 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3660-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4209 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/ | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2018-11-25T10:57:01
Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-5170
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:15.843
Modified: 2019-03-13T13:43:42.497
Link: CVE-2018-5170
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE