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A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 1, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.318%
(70th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-27748

GHSA ID

GHSA-3c8x-jg6w-85xx

Source code

No known source code

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