Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2017-7848

 

Spoofing attack in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2017-7848

Published: December 25, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9733
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7848
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
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 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.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-7848

Update to version 52.5.2.

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