Vulnerability CVE-2017-17848
Published: 2017-12-27

Description:
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. In a variant of CVE-2017-17847, signature spoofing is possible for multipart/related messages because a signed message part can be referenced with a cid: URI but not actually displayed. In other words, the entire containing message appears to be signed, but the recipient does not see any of the signed text.

Type:

CWE-347

 (Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Enigmail -> Enigmail 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
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