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    CVE-2017-17843

    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.

    Published:Dec 22, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Dec 22, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00204
    CVSS Score:5.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Enigmail
    Product
    Enigmail

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High