CVE-2020-11879 Affecting evolution package, versions [,3.35.91)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EVOLUTION-2370008
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11879  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade evolution to version 3.35.91 or higher.

Overview

An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=. value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1