CVE-2017-17844

published 2017-12-27

CVE-2017-17844: An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot…

Priority P4 32 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.0

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

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.

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 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.5 MEDIUM

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