cve-2020-11879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-17 17:07
Modified
2024-08-04 11:42
Severity ?
Summary
An 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/blob/master/NEWSThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/784Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdfThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/blob/master/NEWSThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/784Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdfThird Party Advisory
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