A crafted HTML email using mailbox:/// links can trigger automatic, unsolicited downloads of .pdf files to the user's desktop or home directory without prompting, even if auto-saving is disabled. This behavior can be abused to fill the disk with garbage data (e.g. using /dev/urandom on Linux) or to leak Windows credentials via SMB links when the email is viewed in HTML mode. While user interaction is required to download the .pdf file, visual obfuscation can conceal the download trigger. Viewing the email in HTML mode is enough to load external content. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.11.1 and Thunderbird < 139.0.2.
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Configurations
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History
11 Jun 2025, 14:15
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CWE | CWE-451 | |
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11 Jun 2025, 12:15
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Information
Published : 2025-06-11 12:15
Updated : 2025-06-12 16:06
NVD link : CVE-2025-5986
Mitre link : CVE-2025-5986
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5986
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-451
User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information