CVE-2017-17846

7.5 HIGH

Published: December 27, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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