CVE-2017-7829 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3