A crafted HTML email using mailbox:/// links can trigger automatic, unsolicited downloads of .pdf files to the user's desktop or home directory without prompting, even if auto-saving is disabled. This behavior can be abused to fill the disk with garbage data (e.g. using /dev/urandom on Linux) or to leak Windows credentials via SMB links when the email is viewed in HTML mode. While user interaction is required to download the .pdf file, visual obfuscation can conceal the download trigger. Viewing the email in HTML mode is enough to load external content. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.10.1 and Thunderbird < 138.0.1.
History

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel E4s
Redhat rhel Eus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel E4s
Redhat rhel Eus

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000


Fri, 16 May 2025 15:00:00 +0000

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Title thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


Thu, 15 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L'}


Thu, 15 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-200
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 14 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A crafted HTML email using mailbox:/// links can trigger automatic, unsolicited downloads of .pdf files to the user's desktop or home directory without prompting, even if auto-saving is disabled. This behavior can be abused to fill the disk with garbage data (e.g. using /dev/urandom on Linux) or to leak Windows credentials via SMB links when the email is viewed in HTML mode. While user interaction is required to download the .pdf file, visual obfuscation can conceal the download trigger. Viewing the email in HTML mode is enough to load external content. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.10.1 and Thunderbird < 138.0.1.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2025-05-14T16:56:43.402Z

Updated: 2025-05-15T16:13:18.825Z

Reserved: 2025-04-22T17:02:56.161Z

Link: CVE-2025-3877

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-15T14:50:30.477Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-14T17:15:48.567

Modified: 2025-05-16T14:43:56.797

Link: CVE-2025-3877

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-05-14T16:56:43Z

Links: CVE-2025-3877 - Bugzilla