CVE-2017-7829medium
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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.
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/
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-06-11
Updated: 2018-08-07
Type: CWE-20
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 10
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Impact Score: 1.4
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: MEDIUM
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Configuration 2
OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Configuration 3
OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Configuration 4
OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127376 | NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0126) | Nessus | NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks | critical |
| 127156 | NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0009) | Nessus | NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks | critical |
| 108820 | GLSA-201803-14 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities | Nessus | Gentoo Local Security Checks | critical |
| 106482 | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3529-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | critical |
| 105683 | Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20180107) | Nessus | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 105671 | Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : thunderbird (ELSA-2018-0061) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 105658 | CentOS 6 / 7 : thunderbird (CESA-2018:0061) | Nessus | CentOS Local Security Checks | high |
| 105646 | RHEL 6 / 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2018:0061) | Nessus | Red Hat Local Security Checks | high |
| 105507 | Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.5.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities | Nessus | Windows | high |
| 105497 | Debian DSA-4075-1 : thunderbird - security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | critical |
| 105465 | Debian DLA-1223-1 : thunderbird security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | high |
| 105457 | openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Thunderbird (openSUSE-2017-1419) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 105450 | FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (6a09c80e-6ec7-442a-bc65-d72ce69fd887) | Nessus | FreeBSD Local Security Checks | high |