CVE-2022-3155

When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.3.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2022-12-22

Last modified

2025-04-15

Weaknesses

CWE-276

Affected products

• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789061
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/