Firefox vulnerability

What happened

A specially crafted filename containing a large number of encoded newline characters could obscure the file's extension when displayed in the download dialog. *This bug only affects Thunderbird for Android. Other versions of Thunderbird are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138.

Affected versions

Firefox: before 138.0 Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.