CVE-2018-5170

Description

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.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4209

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3660-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411732

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040946

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3