Vulnerability CVE-2017-17843
Published: 2017-12-27

Description:
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9 that allows remote attackers to trigger use of an intended public key for encryption, because incorrect regular expressions are used for extraction of an e-mail address from a comma-separated list, as demonstrated by a modified Full Name field and a homograph attack, aka TBE-01-002.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Enigmail -> Enigmail 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
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@enigmail.net/msg04280.html
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