It is possible to spoof the sender's email address and display an arbitrary sender address to the email recipient. The real sender's address is not displayed if preceded by a null character in the display string. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centos_linux | — | centos-upgrade-thunderbirdcentos-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo | Jan 17, 2018 | Dec 22, 2017 |
| Debian | debian-upgrade-thunderbird | Dec 31, 2017 | Dec 22, 2017 | |
| Freebsd | freebsd-upgrade-package-thunderbirdfreebsd-upgrade-package-linux-thunderbird | Dec 25, 2017 | Dec 25, 2017 | |
| Gentoo Linux | gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbirdgentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird-bin | Apr 5, 2018 | Mar 28, 2018 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-52_5_2 | Jan 2, 2018 | Dec 22, 2017 | |
| Oracle Solaris | oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-6-0-0-175-3-29-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-6-0-0-175-3-29-0-4-0 | Feb 22, 2018 | Feb 22, 2018 | |
| Redhat_linux | — | redhat-upgrade-thunderbirdredhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo | Jan 9, 2018 | Dec 22, 2017 |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-mozillathunderbirdsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-buildsymbolssuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-develsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-translations-commonsuse-upgrade-mozillathunderbird-translations-other | Dec 26, 2017 | Dec 22, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird | Jan 30, 2018 | Dec 22, 2017 |
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