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.
Published: 2017-12-22
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1219-1 enigmail security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8990 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.
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Debian Debian Linux
Enigmail Enigmail
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:48.850Z

Reserved: 2017-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17843

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-27T17:08:19.670

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-17843

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