CVE-2022-1834

When displaying the sender of an email, and the sender name contained the Braille Pattern Blank space character multiple times, Thunderbird would have…

Medium · published December 22, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When displaying the sender of an email, and the sender name contained the Braille Pattern Blank space character multiple times, Thunderbird would have displayed all the spaces. This could have been used by an attacker to send an email message with the attacker's digital signature, that was shown with an arbitrary sender email address chosen by the attacker. If the sender name started with a false email address, followed by many Braille space characters, the attacker's email address was not visible. Because Thunderbird compared the invisible sender address with the signature's email address, if the signing key or certificate was accepted by Thunderbird, the email was shown as having a valid digital signature. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.10.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00395 · 32.5th percentile
Published
2022-12-22T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 DEC 00:00Z
    When displaying the sender of an email, and the sender name contained the Braille Pattern Blank space character multiple times, Thunderbird would have…
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