CVE-2017-17843 | BDVDB-2026-94443 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
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
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.