The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4244-1 thunderbird security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8846 The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7729-1 KDE PIM vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7730-1 PIM Messagelib vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7731-1 KMail vulnerabilities
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00553}

epss

{'score': 0.00639}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:59:17.441Z

Reserved: 2017-12-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17689

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-16T19:29:00.303

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:18:27.893

Link: CVE-2017-17689

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-05-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17689 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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