CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17843

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• enigmail enigmail (< 1.9.9) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

References