CVE-2017-17848

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-17848
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-12-27T17:08:19
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-05-16T17:29:00
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-347 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/347.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:enigmail:enigmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.9.9
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070 Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17848
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17848
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:52:15 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 00:22:52 2017-12-27T17:08Z 2017-12-27T17:08:19 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 00:22:52 2019-05-16T17:29:00 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 00:22:52 Modified Vulnerability Status updated