CVE-2020-12397
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-22 18:57
Modified
2024-08-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617370Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-03Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4373-1/Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaThunderbird
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