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 < 128.11.1 and Thunderbird < 139.0.2.
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Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:45:00 +0000
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Redhat enterprise Linux
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0 |
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Redhat enterprise Linux
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Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:30:00 +0000
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Mozilla
Mozilla thunderbird |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | |
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Mozilla
Mozilla thunderbird |
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:45:00 +0000
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Redhat rhel Eus
Redhat rhel Tus |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8 |
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Redhat rhel Eus
Redhat rhel Tus |
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:30:00 +0000
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Redhat
Redhat rhel Aus Redhat rhel E4s |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0 |
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Redhat
Redhat rhel Aus Redhat rhel E4s |
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000
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Title | thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links | |
Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000
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Weaknesses | CWE-451 | |
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cvssV3_1
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Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:15:00 +0000
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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 < 128.11.1 and Thunderbird < 139.0.2. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2025-06-11T12:07:50.430Z
Updated: 2025-06-11T13:20:28.401Z
Reserved: 2025-06-10T20:07:11.178Z
Link: CVE-2025-5986

Updated: 2025-06-11T13:16:47.881Z

Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-06-11T12:15:29.183
Modified: 2025-07-02T16:07:00.620
Link: CVE-2025-5986
