CVE-2017-17843

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9 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, as demonstrated by a modified Full Name field and a homograph attack, aka TBE-01-002.

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9 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, as demonstrated by a modified Full Name field and a homograph attack, aka TBE-01-002.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Debian Linux

First reported 7 years ago

2017-12-27 17:08:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf

Vendor Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20171223 [SECURITY] [DLA 1219-1] enigmail security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html

Third Party Advisory

DSA-4070

Third Party Advisory

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04280.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

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