CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-3417
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Description
Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.0.1 and Thunderbird < 102.13.1.
Affected configurations
• mozilla thunderbird (< 102.13.1)
• mozilla thunderbird (>= 115.0 < 115.0.1)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582 Permissions Required
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582 Permissions Required
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/ Vendor Advisory