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CVE-2017-17846

high

Description

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. Regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings, aka TBE-01-003.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070

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

https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf

https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-27

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00782