PT-2018-3743 · Mozilla+5 · Thunderbird+5

Cure53 · Published 2018-05-18 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-5170

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 52.8 Thunderbird versions prior to 52.8

Description The issue allows an attacker to spoof the filename of an attachment, potentially leading to a user opening a remote attachment that is a different file type than expected. This is due to insufficient input validation.

Recommendations For Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 52.8, update to version 52.8 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 52.8, update to version 52.8 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1753

BDU:2021-04139

CESA-2018_1725

CESA-2018_1726

CVE-2018-5170

DLA-1382-1

DSA-4209-1

MGASA-2018-0261

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1361-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2018:1725

RHSA-2018:1726

RHSA-2018_1725

RHSA-2018_1726

USN-3660-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 433

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5170 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5170 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-04139 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5162 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0261.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5154 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5183 · Vendor Advisory