It is possible to spoof the filename of an attachment and display an arbitrary attachment name. This could lead to a user opening a remote attachment which is a different file type than expected. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8 and Thunderbird < 52.8.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T05:26:47.040Z

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5170

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:15.843

Modified: 2019-03-13T13:43:42.497

Link: CVE-2018-5170

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5170 - Bugzilla