FKIE_CVE-2020-12397

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-05-22 19:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 04:59
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617370Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-03Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4373-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla thunderbird *
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 19.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 20.04
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