vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17848: enigmail -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 27, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-enigmail
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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