Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting thunderbird-debuginfo package, versions <0:102.15.0-1.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-THUNDERBIRDDEBUGINFO-5912510
  • published21 Sept 2023
  • disclosed24 Jul 2023

Introduced: 24 Jul 2023

CVE-2023-3417  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 thunderbird-debuginfo to version 0:102.15.0-1.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2248.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird-debuginfo package and not the thunderbird-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.0.1 and Thunderbird < 102.13.1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1