CVE-2020-27748

MEDIUM

Freedesktop Xdg-utils - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer. When handling mailto: URIs, xdg-email allows attachments to be discreetly added via the URI when being passed to Thunderbird. An attacker could potentially send a victim a URI that automatically attaches a sensitive file to a new email. If a victim user does not notice that an attachment was added and sends the email, this could result in sensitive information disclosure. It has been confirmed that the code behind this issue is in xdg-email and not in Thunderbird.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 64.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-201
Status published

Affected Products (1)

freedesktop/xdg-utils

Timeline

Published Jun 01, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026