- Description
- Thunderbird's handling of the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header can be exploited to execute JavaScript in the file:/// context. By crafting a nested email attachment (message/rfc822) and setting its content type to application/pdf, Thunderbird may incorrectly render it as HTML when opened, allowing the embedded JavaScript to run without requiring a file download. This behavior relies on Thunderbird auto-saving the attachment to /tmp and linking to it via the file:/// protocol, potentially enabling JavaScript execution as part of the HTML. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.10.1 and Thunderbird < 138.0.1.
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 2.5
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-290
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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