A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer. When handling mailto: URIs, xdg-email allows attachments to be discreetly added via the URI when being passed to Thunderbird. An attacker could potentially send a victim a URI that automatically attaches a sensitive file to a new email. If a victim user does not notice that an attachment was added and sends the email, this could result in sensitive information disclosure. It has been confirmed that the code behind this issue is in xdg-email and not in Thunderbird.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899769 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/177 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-06-01T13:15:11

Updated: 2021-06-01T13:15:11

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-27748

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-01T14:15:08.387

Modified: 2021-06-11T17:34:38.263


Link: CVE-2020-27748

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