CVE-2017-7829

moderate-risk
Published 2018-06-11

It is possible to spoof the sender's email address and display an arbitrary sender address to the email recipient. The real sender's address is not displayed if preceded by a null character in the display string. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Do I need to act?

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1.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (16)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Mozilla Canonical

References (16)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061
Exploit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061
Exploit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate