CVE-2017-17848
- 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. In a variant of CVE-2017-17847, signature spoofing is possible for multipart/related messages because a signed message part can be referenced with a cid: URI but not actually displayed. In other words, the entire containing message appears to be signed, but the recipient does not see any of the signed text.
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://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
- [debian-lts-announce] 20171223 [SECURITY] [DLA 1219-1] enigmail security updatemailing-list
- DSA-4070vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20190430 Spoofing OpenPGP and S/MIME Signatures in Emails (multiple clients)mailing-list
- 20190430 OpenPGP and S/MIME signature forgery attacks in multiple email clientsmailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
- https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
- https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
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