Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2025-0510
Published: February 4, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103616
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0510
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of a sender address if the From field of an email used the invalid group name syntax. A remote attacker can spoof the email content.
Note, the vulnerability is similar to #VU100312 (CVE-2024-49040).
How to mitigate CVE-2025-0510
Install updates from vendor's website.