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CVE-2017-7847

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name....

4.3 MediumFix available

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

1.59%Down 0.1 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.3

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
CVE-2017-7847
CVSS 3.0
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
CVE-2017-7847
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-16822 No score

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
EUVD-2017-16822
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jmgx-hhrr-ppmv 4.3

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name....

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
GHSA-jmgx-hhrr-ppmv
CVSS 3.0
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 4.3

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
CVE-2017-7847
CVSS 3.0
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-7847 4.3

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7847
CVSS 3.0
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVRHSA-2018:0061 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Record
RHSA-2018:0061
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-7847 4.3

Crafted CSS in an RSS feed can leak and reveal local path strings, which may contain user name. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7847
CVSS 3.0
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0477 No score

Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in thunderbird.

  • JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin (CVE-2017-7846).
  • Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed (CVE-2017-7847).
  • RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection (CVE-2017-7848).
  • Mailsploit From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display (CVE-2017-7829).

Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in the bundled enigmail package.

  • An issue was discovered that allows remote attackers to trigger use of an intended public key for encryption, because incorrect regular expressions are used for extraction of an e-mail address from a comma-separated list (CVE-2017-17843).
  • A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text (CVE-2017-17844).
  • An issue was discovered where Improper Random Secret Generation occurs because Math.Random() is used by pretty Easy privacy (pEp) (CVE-2017-17845).
  • An issue was discovered where regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings (CVE-2017-17846).
  • An issue was discovered that signature spoofing is possible because the UI does not properly distinguish between an attachment signature, and a signature that applies to the entire containing message (CVE-2017-17847).
  • In a variant of CVE-2017-17847, signature spoofing is possible for multipart/related messages because a signed message part can be referenced with a cid: URI but not actually displayed (CVE-2017-17848)
Record
MGASA-2017-0477
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2017:3433-1 No score

Security update for Mozilla Thunderbird

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 52.5.2 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2017-7846: JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin (bsc#1074043)
  • CVE-2017-7847: Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed (bsc#1074044)
  • CVE-2017-7848: RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection (bsc#1074045)
  • CVE-2017-7829: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display (bsc#1074046)
Record
openSUSE-SU-2017:3433-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2017:3434-1 No score

Security update for Mozilla Thunderbird

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 52.5.2 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2017-7846: JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin (bsc#1074043)
  • CVE-2017-7847: Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed (bsc#1074044)
  • CVE-2017-7848: RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection (bsc#1074045)
  • CVE-2017-7829: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display (bsc#1074046)
Record
openSUSE-SU-2017:3434-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1 No score

MozillaThunderbird-91.1.1-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the MozillaThunderbird-91.1.1-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3529-1 No score

thunderbird vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a From address encoded with a null character is cut off in the message header display. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the sender address. (CVE-2017-7829)

It was discovered that it is possible to execute JavaScript in RSS feeds in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted RSS feed, an attacker could potentially exploit this in combination with another vulnerability, in order to cause unspecified problems. (CVE-2017-7846)

It was discovered that the RSS feed can leak local path names. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted RSS feed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7847)

It was discovered that RSS feeds are vulnerable to new line injection. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted RSS feed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause unspecified problems. (CVE-2017-7848)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code, or cause other unspecified effects. (CVE-2018-5089, CVE-2018-5095, CVE-2018-5096, CVE-2018-5097, CVE-2018-5098, CVE-2018-5099, CVE-2018-5102, CVE-2018-5103, CVE-2018-5104, CVE-2018-5117)

Record
USN-3529-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
thunderbird
Debian:12
before 1:52.5.2-1
1:52.5.2-1
thunderbird
Debian:13
before 1:52.5.2-1
1:52.5.2-1
thunderbird
Debian:14
before 1:52.5.2-1
1:52.5.2-1
thunderbird
Debian:7
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 1:52.5.2-1~deb7u1, plus listed versions
1.5-41.5.0.2-11.5.0.2-21.5.0.2-31.5.0.4-1
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1.5.0.4-21.5.0.4-31.5.0.5-11.5.0.7-11.5.0.7-21:52.4.0-11:52.4.0-1~deb7u11:52.4.0-1~deb8u11:52.4.0-1~deb9u11:52.4.0-2~exp11:52.5.0-11:52.5.0-1~deb7u11:52.5.0-1~deb8u11:52.5.0-1~deb9u1
1:52.5.2-1~deb7u1
thunderbird
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1:52.5.2-2~deb8u1, plus listed versions
1.5-41.5.0.2-11.5.0.2-21.5.0.2-31.5.0.4-1
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1.5.0.4-21.5.0.4-31.5.0.5-11.5.0.7-11.5.0.7-21:52.4.0-11:52.4.0-1~deb7u11:52.4.0-1~deb8u11:52.4.0-1~deb9u11:52.4.0-2~exp11:52.5.0-11:52.5.0-1~deb7u11:52.5.0-1~deb8u11:52.5.0-1~deb9u11:52.5.2-11:52.5.2-1~deb7u1
1:52.5.2-2~deb8u1
thunderbird
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1, plus listed versions
1.5-41.5.0.2-11.5.0.2-21.5.0.2-31.5.0.4-1
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1.5.0.4-21.5.0.4-31.5.0.5-11.5.0.7-11.5.0.7-21:52.4.0-11:52.4.0-1~deb7u11:52.4.0-1~deb8u11:52.4.0-1~deb9u11:52.4.0-2~exp11:52.5.0-11:52.5.0-1~deb7u11:52.5.0-1~deb8u11:52.5.0-1~deb9u11:52.5.2-11:52.5.2-1~deb7u11:52.5.2-2~deb8u1
1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1
thunderbird
Mageia:5
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 52.5.2-1.mga5
52.5.2-1.mga5
thunderbird-l10n
Mageia:5
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 52.5.2-1.mga5
52.5.2-1.mga5
thunderbird
Mageia:6
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 52.5.2-1.mga6
52.5.2-1.mga6
thunderbird-l10n
Mageia:6
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 52.5.2-1.mga6
52.5.2-1.mga6
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
0:52.5.2-1.el6_9
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
0:52.5.2-1.el7_4
thunderbird
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu11:24.0+build1-0ubuntu21:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.11:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu11:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu11:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.4.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.31:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.41:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.21:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
thunderbird
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu21:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu11:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu11:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.21:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.21:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
thunderbird
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu11:24.0+build1-0ubuntu21:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.11:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu11:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu11:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.4.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.31:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.41:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.11:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.21:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
thunderbird
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu21:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu11:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu11:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.21:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.21:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
MozillaThunderbird
SUSE:Package Hub 12
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 52.5.2-51.1
52.5.2-51.1
MozillaThunderbird
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 394 CVEs
before 91.1.1-1.1
91.1.1-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-7847 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Mozilla Thunderbird, published December 24, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.59%, the 75th percentile. Fixed in thunderbird 1:52.5.2-1.

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