Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2018-5170

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12867

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5170

CWE-ID: CWE-451

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can use external attachments, spoof the filename of an attachment and display an arbitrary attachment name.

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Update to version 52.8.

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird
• OpenSUSE Linux update for Mozilla Thunderbird
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• Arch Linux update for thunderbird
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