An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=. value.

The version of evolution installed on the remote host is prior to 3.28.5-10. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2833 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068)     mailto?attach=... parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local     files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by     an attach=. value. (CVE-2020-11879)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068)     mailto?attach=... parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local     files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by     an attach=. value. (CVE-2020-11879)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3375-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in GNOME Evolution before 3.35.91. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068)     mailto?attach=... parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make Evolution attach local     files or directories to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by     an attach=. value. (CVE-2020-11879)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234518	Amazon Linux 2 : evolution (ALAS-2025-2833)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
223017	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-11879	Nessus	Misc.	medium
180044	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : evolution (SUSE-SU-2023:3375-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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