CVE-2005-2353 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2353?

CVE-2005-2353 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird, published on 5 Aug 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

run-mozilla.sh in Thunderbird, with debugging enabled, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2353?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2353?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2005-2353 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2353 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2353, GHSA-79jc-343r-49r6.