CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7829

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2018-06-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla thunderbird (< 52.5.2) • redhat enterprise linux aus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux eus 7.5 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References