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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-12397

By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays.

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 0.60%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.60% probability · 47th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-346
Affected
mozilla/thunderbird · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
security@mozilla.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.