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CVE-2022-3155

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

7.8 High

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.22%Down 0.7 points since Dec 23, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.8

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.

Record
CVE-2022-3155
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-276
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List 7.8

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.

Record
CVE-2022-3155
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-276
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-42579 7.8

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.

Record
EUVD-2022-42579
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6gfq-p2cr-3q5j 7.8

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

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.

Record
GHSA-6gfq-p2cr-3q5j
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-276
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12358-1 No score

MozillaThunderbird-102.3.0-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the MozillaThunderbird-102.3.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12358-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2022:3800-1 No score

Security update for MozillaThunderbird

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.4.0 (bsc#1204421)
    • changed: Thunderbird will automatically detect and repair OpenPGP key storage corruption caused by using the profile import tool in Thunderbird 102
    • fixed: POP message download into a large folder (~13000 messages) caused Thunderbird to temporarily freeze
    • fixed: Forwarding messages with special characters in Subject failed on Windows
    • fixed: Links for FileLink attachments were not added when attachment filename contained Unicode characters
    • fixed: Address Book display pane continued to show contacts after deletion
    • fixed: Printing address book did not include all contact details
    • fixed: CardDAV contacts without a Name property did not save to Google Contacts
    • fixed: 'Publish Calendar' did not work
    • fixed: Calendar database storage improvements
    • fixed: Incorrectly handled error responses from CalDAV servers sometimes caused events to disappear from calendar
    • fixed: Various visual and UX improvements
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.3
    • new: Option added to show containing address book for a contact when using All Address Books in vertical mode (bmo#1778871)
    • changed: Thunderbird will try to use POP NTLM authentication even if not advertised by server (bmo#1793349)
    • changed: Task List and Today Pane sidebars will no longer load when not visible (bmo#1788549)
    • fixed: Sending a message while a recipient pill was being modified did not save changes (bmo#1779785)
    • fixed: Nickname column was not available in horizontal view of Address Book (bmo#1778000)
    • fixed: Multiline organization values were displayed across two columns in horizontal view of Address Book (bmo#1777780)
    • fixed: Contact vCard fields with multiple values such as Categories were truncated when saved (bmo#1792399)
    • fixed: ICS calendar files with a FREEBUSY property could not be imported (bmo#1783441)
    • fixed: Thunderbird would hang if calendar event exceeded the year 2035 (bmo#1789999)
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.2
    • changed: Thunderbird will try to use POP CRAM-MD5 authentication even if not advertised by server (bmo#1789975)
    • fixed: Checking messages on POP3 accounts caused POP folder to lock if mail server was slow or non-responsive (bmo#1792451)
    • fixed: Newsgroups named with consecutive dots would not appear when refreshing list of newsgroups (bmo#1787789)
    • fixed: Sending news articles containing lines starting with dot were sometimes clipped (bmo#1787955)
    • fixed: CardDAV server sync silently failed if sync token expired (bmo#1791183)
    • fixed: Contacts from LDAP on macOS address books were not displayed (bmo#1791347)
    • fixed: Chat account input now accepts URIs for supported chat protocols (bmo#1776706)
    • fixed: Chat ScreenName field was not migrated to new address book (bmo#1789990)
    • fixed: Creating a New Event from the Today Pane used the currently selected day from the main calendar instead of from the Today Pane (bmo#1791203)
    • fixed: New Event button in Today Pane was incorrectly disabled sometimes (bmo#1792058)
    • fixed: Event reminder windows did not close after being dismissed or snoozed (bmo#1791228)
    • fixed: Improved performance of recurring event date calculation (bmo#1787677)
    • fixed: Quarterly calendar events on the last day of the month repeated one month early (bmo#1789362)
    • fixed: Thunderbird would hang if calendar event exceeded the year 2035 (bmo#1789999)
    • fixed: Whitespace in calendar events was incorrectly handled when upgrading from Thunderbird 91 to 102 (bmo#1790339)
    • fixed: Various visual and UX improvements (bmo#1755623,bmo#17 83903,bmo#1785851,bmo#1786434,bmo#1787286,bmo#1788151,bmo#178 9728,bmo#1790499)
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.1
    • changed: Compose window encryption options now only appear for encryption…
Record
SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
MozillaThunderbird
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP3
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP4
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP3
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP4
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
openSUSE:Leap 15.3
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
openSUSE:Leap 15.4
From an advisory covering 12 CVEs
before 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
102.4.0-150200.8.85.1
MozillaThunderbird
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 102.3.0-1.1
102.3.0-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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In short

CVE-2022-3155 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Mozilla Thunderbird, published October 27, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.22%, the 12th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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