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CVE-2017-17843

MEDIUM
5.9CVSS
Published: 2017-12-27
Updated: 2025-04-20
AI Analysis

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.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
high
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high
Availability
none
Weaknesses
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Metadata

Primary Vendor
ENIGMAIL
Published
12/27/2017
Last Modified
4/20/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

enigmail : enigmaildebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linux

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