Mozilla Thunderbird < 1.5 Attachment Extension Spoofing

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20735

Synopsis

The remote version of Mozilla Thunderbird is affected by an attachment spoofing vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is using Mozilla Thunderbird, an email client.

The remote version of this software does not display attachments correctly in emails. Using an overly-long filename and specially crafted Content-Type headers, an attacker may be able to leverage this issue to spoof the file extension and associated file type icon and trick a user into executing an arbitrary program.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20735

File Name: mozilla_thunderbird_15.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 1/18/2006

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: Mozilla/Thunderbird/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0236

BID: 16271

Detections

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