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Critical · 9.3 CVE-2023-46116 EUVD-2023-50375

Remote Code Execution via insufficiently sanitized call to shell.openExternal

Published Dec 15, 2023 · Updated Oct 8, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Tutanota (Tuta Mail) is an encrypted email provider. Tutanota allows users to open links in emails in external applications. Prior to version 3.118.12, it correctly blocks the `file:` URL scheme, which can be used by malicious actors to gain code execution on a victims computer, however fails to check other harmful schemes such as `ftp:`, `smb:`, etc. which can also be used. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will enable an attacker to gain code execution on a victim's computer. Version 3.118.2 contains a patch for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tutao tutanota < 3.118.12 —

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