CVE-2017-17846 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. Regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings, aka TBE-01-003.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00782.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Enigmail	Enigmail

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:enigmail:enigmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1219-1	enigmail security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-8993	An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. Regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings, aka TBE-01-003.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-22T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:48.963Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-17846

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-27T17:08:19.810

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

Link: CVE-2017-17846

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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