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CVE-2023-3417 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582	CVE	Permissions Required
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582	[email protected]	Permissions Required
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo	Insufficient Information to Classify Weakness	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mozilla thunderbird	< 102.13.1 >= 115.0, < 115.0.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux	10.0 11.0 12.0
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 1, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jul 31, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 31, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 28, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]