CVE-2006-0236

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment.

Affected products

Mozilla Thunderbird: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/15907
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164
http://secunia.com/advisories/15907
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded

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