Bug 2372281 (CVE-2025-5986)

Summary: CVE-2025-5986 thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gotiwari, jhorak, mvyas, tpopela
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A flaw was found in Thunderbird. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: 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.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-11 12:47:25 UTC
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.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 19:40:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:10166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10166

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 19:45:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:10161 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10161

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 19:48:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:10165 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10165

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 20:11:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:10163 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10163

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 20:46:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:10160 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10160

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 21:15:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:10159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10159

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 21:39:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:10164 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10164

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-02 08:08:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:10195 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10195

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-02 08:19:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:10196 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10196

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-02 14:54:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:10246 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10246