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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.3
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbirdamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo | Apr 27, 2020 | Jun 11, 2018 | |
| Arch Linux | arch-linux-upgrade-latest | Jul 11, 2025 | Jun 11, 2018 | |
| Centos_linux | — | centos-upgrade-thunderbirdcentos-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo | May 31, 2018 | May 21, 2018 |
| Debian | debian-upgrade-thunderbird | May 26, 2018 | May 21, 2018 | |
| Gentoo Linux | gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbirdgentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird-bin | Nov 26, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-52_8 | May 22, 2018 | May 18, 2018 | |
| Oracle Solaris | oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-8-0-0-175-3-33-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-8-0-0-175-3-33-0-4-0 | Jun 18, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 | |
| Oracle_linux | — | oracle-linux-upgrade-thunderbird | May 25, 2018 | May 18, 2018 |
| Redhat_linux | — | redhat-upgrade-thunderbirdredhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo | May 25, 2018 | May 21, 2018 |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-mozillathunderbirdsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-buildsymbolssuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-develsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-translations-commonsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-translations-other | May 22, 2018 | May 21, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird | Jun 5, 2018 | May 21, 2018 |
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