CVE-2017-17846

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.78% Top 30%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory enigmail.net
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf third party advisory vendor advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html third party advisory
https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html mailing list
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-17846?
CVE-2017-17846 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-17846?
To fix CVE-2017-17846, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2017-17846 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2017-17846 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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