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ghsa-mg46-fgw7-xxfg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:18

Modified

2023-02-28 15:30

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

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.

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CVE-2020-12397 (GCVE-0-2020-12397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-05-22 18:57

Modified

2024-08-04 11:56

Severity ?

CWE

Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode characters

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

URL

Tags

	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617370	x_refsource_MISC
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/4373-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-03	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Thunderbird	Version: unspecified < 68.8.0

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