CVE-2006-0236

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-0236
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-01-18 01:07:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionGUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-94 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 beta2 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Mozilla Thunderbird Attachment Spoofing Vulnerability - Secunia Research - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
300246 – (sa15907) Spoofing via attachment dragging af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Mozilla Thunderbird File Attachment Spoofing Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-08-30Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. We verified that this issue does not affect Linux versions of Thunderbird.

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