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high 7.8

CVE-2022-3155 json

When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute com.apple.quarantine on the received file.

published 2022-12-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-42579

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP4, SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP3, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4 +3 more 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1

  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 102.3.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12358-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3155 updated cvss 5.3

Mozilla: Attachment files saved to disk on macOS could be executed without warning

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789061 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

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