CVE-2020-12397

Name
CVE-2020-12397
Description
By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.8.0.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617370
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4373-1/
MISC https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-03

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* thunderbird >= None < 68.8.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
thunderbird edge-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird edge-community 68.7.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird edge-community 68.6.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird edge-community 68.5.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird 3.22-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird 3.22-community 68.7.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird 3.22-community 68.6.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird 3.22-community 68.5.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
thunderbird 3.21-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird 3.20-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird 3.19-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird 3.18-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed
thunderbird 3.17-community 68.8.0-r0 None fixed