CVE-2020-11879

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-11879
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-17 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-04 15:00:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=. value.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Evolution All All All All
Application Gnome Evolution All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Warn about and limit what can be attached using mailto: URI (#784) · Issues · GNOME / evolution · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Third Party Advisory
NEWS · master · GNOME / evolution · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Third Party Advisory
www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdf MISC www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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