Vulnerability CVE-2017-7829
Published: 2018-06-11

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux aus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux eus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Mozilla -> Thunderbird 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
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/
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