vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-12397: CVE-2020-12397 Mozilla: Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode characters (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 11, 2020
Added
May 12, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.8.0.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-thunderbirdredhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginforedhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource
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