CVE-2022-4055 (GCVE-0-2022-4055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-18 00:00
Modified
2025-04-29 18:55
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Summary
When 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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a xdg-utils Version: xdg-utils 1.1.0 to and including 1.1.3
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