RCE in Mozilla Thunderbird
CVE-2006-0236
GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/15907 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)