Bug 1832565 (CVE-2020-12397) - CVE-2020-12397 Mozilla: Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode characters
Summary: CVE-2020-12397 Mozilla: Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode c...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-12397
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1831592 1831593 1831594 1831595 1831596 1831597 1831598
Blocks: 1831590
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-06 20:30 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-26 08:32 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: thunderbird 68.8.0
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Last Closed: 2020-05-11 10:31:52 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2046 0 None None None 2020-05-11 09:25:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2047 0 None None None 2020-05-11 09:05:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2048 0 None None None 2020-05-11 08:54:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2049 0 None None None 2020-05-11 09:34:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2050 0 None None None 2020-05-11 09:51:20 UTC

Description msiddiqu 2020-05-06 20:30:15 UTC 
By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From
email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address
that Thunderbird displays.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/#CVE-2020-12397
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-05-06 20:30:18 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Ahmed Elsobky (@0xSobky)
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-11 08:54:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2020:2048 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2048
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-11 09:05:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:2047 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2047
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-11 09:25:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:2046 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2046
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-11 09:34:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2020:2049 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2049
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-11 09:51:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:2050 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2050
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-11 10:31:52 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-12397
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