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alsa-2025:10196

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2025-07-02 00:00

Modified

2025-07-03 07:55

Summary

Important: thunderbird security update

Details

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links (CVE-2025-5986)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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      "package": {
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  "details": "Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links (CVE-2025-5986)\n\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n",
  "id": "ALSA-2025:10196",
  "modified": "2025-07-03T07:55:59Z",
  "published": "2025-07-02T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10196"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5986"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2372281"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-10196.html"
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  "related": [
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  "summary": "Important: thunderbird security update"
}

CVE-2025-5986 (GCVE-0-2025-5986)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-11 12:07 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:06

Summary

A crafted HTML email using mailbox:/// links can trigger automatic, unsolicited downloads of .pdf files to the user's desktop or home directory without prompting, even if auto-saving is disabled. This behavior can be abused to fill the disk with garbage data (e.g. using /dev/urandom on Linux) or to leak Windows credentials via SMB links when the email is viewed in HTML mode. While user interaction is required to download the .pdf file, visual obfuscation can conceal the download trigger. Viewing the email in HTML mode is enough to load external content. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.11.1 and Thunderbird < 139.0.2.

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links

Assigner

mozilla

References

URL

Tags

	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1…
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Mozilla

Thunderbird

Affected: unspecified , < 128.11.1 (custom)

Mozilla

Thunderbird

Affected: unspecified , < 139.0.2 (custom)

Credits

Dario Weißer

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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