Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-3417
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/