CVE-2025-0510 | Address of e-mail sender can be spoofed by malicious email

Thunderbird displayed an incorrect sender address if the From field of an email used the invalid group name syntax that is described in CVE-2024-49040. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 128.7 and Thunderbird 135.

Published: 2025-02-04 Last update: 2026-04-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-0510 is rated Moderate Risk (48.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.46%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-0510

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-07 0.57% 0.46% -0.11%
2 2026-04-21 0.45% 0.57% +0.12%
3 2026-04-19 — 0.45% —

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-0510

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-0510

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-0510

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2025-0510: 1 source package rows (thunderbird); 66 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 66. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-0510
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-0510 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (thunderbird), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-0510
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0510
suse high CVE-2025-0510 severity important: SUSE including 9 source package names (MozillaThunderbird-128.7.0-1.1, MozillaThunderbird-128.7.0-150200.8.200.1, …), 23 product×package rows across 9 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 8, SUSE Liberty Linux 9, … (9 product lines)): Fixed 23. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0510/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-0510 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (thunderbird), 6 status rows across 6 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, upstream): not-affected 3, released 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0510

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-0510

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla thunderbird >= 128.0.1, < 128.7.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird >= 131.0, < 135.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-0510

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