Mozilla Thunderbird up to 131 Response Header Content-Disposition cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 131 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Response Header Handler. Such manipulation of the argument Content-Disposition leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-10461. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 131. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Response Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Content-Disposition with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

In multipart/x-mixed-replace responses, `Content-Disposition: attachment` in the response header was not respected and did not force a download, which could allow XSS attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132, Firefox ESR < 128.4, Thunderbird < 128.4, and Thunderbird < 132.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-10461 since 10/28/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/30/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209869 (Mozilla Firefox ESR < 128.4), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 132 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209869). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Mozilla

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• Thunderbird

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• 131

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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