CVE-2018-12019

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
The signature verification routine in Enigmail before 2.0.7 interprets user ids as status/control messages and does not correctly keep track of the status of multiple signatures, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary email signatures via public keys containing crafted primary user ids.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-12019
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-06-13T23:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-05-16T18:29:00
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 2.0.7
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.enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/13/10 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-2018-12019
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12019
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:52:14 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 08:02:45 2018-06-13T23:29Z 2018-06-13T23:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 08:02:45 2019-05-16T18:29:00 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 08:02:45 Modified Vulnerability Status updated