CVE-2020-11879: Gnome Evolution

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gnome Evolution: before 3.35.91 (fixed in 3.35.91)

Published 2020-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.