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CVE-2017-7829

It is possible to spoof the sender's email address and display an arbitrary sender address to the email recipient. The real sender's…

Medium5.3EPSS 1.8%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
mozilla

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2017-7829, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0Medium5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Mozilla · Thunderbird

    • affected unspecified – < 52.5.2

References (8)

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Record last updated .