CVE-2017-17843
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 22, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 22, 2017
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
- https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html
- [debian-lts-announce] 20171223 [SECURITY] [DLA 1219-1] enigmail security updatemailing-list
- DSA-4070vendor-advisory
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