User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information Affecting thunderbird-ESR package, versions [,128.9.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THUNDERBIRDESR-9788171
  • published21 Apr 2025
  • disclosed15 Apr 2025
  • creditDario Weißer

Introduced: 15 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2025-3523  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-451  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thunderbird-ESR to version 128.9.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information via the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header. An attacker can trick users into downloading content from untrusted sources by exploiting the misleading hover text which displays only the last link regardless of the attachment hovered over.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1