What is CVE-2020-27748?

CVE-2020-27748 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Xdg-utils, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Sent Data. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2020-27748?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Xdg-utils

CVE-2020-27748

A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer. When handling mailto: URIs, xdg-email allows attachments to be discreetly added via the URI when being passed to Thunderbird. An attacker could potentially send…

EPSS: 0.014 (70.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Freedesktop Xdg-utils
N/a Xdg-utils — versions xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-201 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Sent Data

References

secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-27748?: CVE-2020-27748 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Xdg-utils, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Sent Data. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-27748?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.