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CVE-2017-17848

Published: Dec 22, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/

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https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html

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[debian-lts-announce] 20171223 [SECURITY] [DLA 1219-1] enigmail security update

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20190430 Spoofing OpenPGP and S/MIME Signatures in Emails (multiple clients)

mailing-list

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20190430 OpenPGP and S/MIME signature forgery attacks in multiple email clients

mailing-list

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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html

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https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired

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https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf

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