Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2017-7848

Vulnerability identifier: #VU9733

CSH Severity: Low

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

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7848

CWE-ID: CWE-20

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 values in HTTP parameters. A remote attacker can inject new lines into the created email structure via specially crafted RSS fields and modify the message body.

Mozilla Thunderbird
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
SUSE Linux
Opensuse

Update to version 52.5.2.

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird
• openSUSE update for MozillaThunderbird
• SUSE Linux update for Mozilla Thunderbird
• Debian update for thunderbird
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird
• Red Hat update for thunderbird