Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2018-5170
Published: May 21, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12867
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5170
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 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5170
Update to version 52.8.