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CVE-2017-17848
high
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html