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CVE-2017-17844

MEDIUM
6.5CVSS
Published: 2017-12-27
Updated: 2025-04-20
AI Analysis

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-319

Metadata

Primary Vendor
ENIGMAIL
Published
12/27/2017
Last Modified
4/20/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

enigmail : enigmaildebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linux

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