CVE-2017-17843

published 2017-12-27

CVE-2017-17843: 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…

Priority P4 28 medium 5.9 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC H PR N UI N S U C N I H A N

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	enigmail	< enigmail 2:1.9.9-1 (bullseye)	enigmail 2:1.9.9-1 (bullseye)
enigmail	enigmail	< 1.9.9	1.9.9
enigmail	enigmail	>= 0 < 2:1.9.9-1	2:1.9.9-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 5.9 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.9 MEDIUM

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