Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting thunderbird package, versions <0:78.10.0-1.el7_9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-THUNDERBIRD-1532880
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Apr 2021

Introduced: 19 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-24002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 thunderbird to version 0:78.10.0-1.el7_9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1350.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

When a user clicked on an FTP URL containing encoded newline characters (%0A and %0D), the newlines would have been interpreted as such and allowed arbitrary commands to be sent to the FTP server. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.10, Thunderbird < 78.10, and Firefox < 88.

CVSS Scores

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