Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2022-1834

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Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2022-1834

Published: May 31, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU63886
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1834
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of multiple Braille Pattern Blank space characters, which results in displaying every space character. A remote attacker can spoof the email address of the sender.


Affected software

Mozilla Thunderbird
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Server
Anolis OS
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - 4 Year Extended Update Support
Oracle Linux
Oracle Solaris
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
thunderbird (Debian package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
thunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1834

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 91.10.0
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:91.10.0-1~deb10u1, 1:91.10.0-1~deb11u1
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.10.0-1.el7_9, 91.10.0-1.el8_1, 91.10.0-1.el8_2, 91.10.0-1.el8_4, 91.10.0-1.el8_6, 91.10.0-1.el9_0
thunderbird - update to 91.10.0-1.0.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 91.12.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 91.12.0

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