CVE-2022-4055

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-4055
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-19 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-26 03:18:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen xdg-mail is configured to use thunderbird for mailto URLs, improper parsing of the URL can lead to additional headers being passed to thunderbird that should not be included per RFC 2368. An attacker can use this method to create a mailto URL that looks safe to users, but will actually attach files when clicked.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-146

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freedesktop Xdg-utils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
xdg-email does not parse mailto uris properly for thunderbird (#205) · Issues · xdg / xdg-utils · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 354830 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for xdg-utils : ALAS2-2023-2002
  • 355151 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for xdg-utils : ALAS2023-2023-007
  • 904556 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for xdg-utils (11465)
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