CVE-2020-27748

MEDIUM

xdg-utils >=1.1.0-rc1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure via xdg-email mailto URI Attachment Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899769
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/177

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0144
EPSS Percentile 69.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-201
Status published
Products (1)
freedesktop/xdg-utils 1.1.0
Published Jun 01, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026