CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-11879
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=. value.
Affected configurations
• gnome evolution (< 3.35.91)
References
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/blob/master/NEWS Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/784 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/blob/master/NEWS Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/784 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdf Third Party Advisory