CVE-2020-27748
MEDIUMxdg-utils >=1.1.0-rc1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure via xdg-email mailto URI Attachment Injection
Title source: llmDescription
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