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.
Published: 2017-12-22
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Action: n/a
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1219-1 enigmail security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8991 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.
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Debian Debian Linux
Enigmail Enigmail
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:49.166Z

Reserved: 2017-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17844

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-27T17:08:19.717

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-17844

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