CVE-2017-17844
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content...
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
CVE-2017-17844- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-319
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
CVE-2017-17844- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-8991 No score
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
EUVD-2017-8991- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-v476-27v8-hrp8
6.5
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content...
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
GHSA-v476-27v8-hrp8- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-319
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.5
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
CVE-2017-17844- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-17844
6.5
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17844- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-17844
6.5
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block (that the attacker cannot directly decrypt) to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text, aka the TBE-01-005 "replay" issue.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17844- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0477 No score
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in thunderbird.
- JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin (CVE-2017-7846).
- Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed (CVE-2017-7847).
- RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection (CVE-2017-7848).
- Mailsploit From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display (CVE-2017-7829).
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in the bundled enigmail package.
- An issue was discovered 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 (CVE-2017-17843).
- A remote attacker can obtain cleartext content by sending an encrypted data block to a victim, and relying on the victim to automatically decrypt that block and then send it back to the attacker as quoted text (CVE-2017-17844).
- An issue was discovered where Improper Random Secret Generation occurs because Math.Random() is used by pretty Easy privacy (pEp) (CVE-2017-17845).
- An issue was discovered where regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings (CVE-2017-17846).
- An issue was discovered that signature spoofing is possible because the UI does not properly distinguish between an attachment signature, and a signature that applies to the entire containing message (CVE-2017-17847).
- 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 (CVE-2017-17848)
- Record
MGASA-2017-0477- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
enigmailDebian:11 |
before 2:1.9.9-1 | 2:1.9.9-1 |
enigmailDebian:7 From an advisory covering 6 CVEs |
before 2:1.9.9-1~deb7u1, plus listed versions 2:1.4.1-22:1.4.1exp-12:1.4.5+id16-12:1.4.6+id16-12:1.4.6+id17-1 Show 45 moreShow less2:1.5.0+id17-12:1.5.0+id17-22:1.5.1+id17-12:1.5.1+id17-22:1.5.1+id17-32:1.5.1+id17-3~deb7u12:1.5.1+id17-42:1.6+git0.20140323-12:1.6+git0.20140323-22:1.6-12:1.6-22:1.6-32:1.6-42:1.6-4~deb7u12:1.7-12:1.7.2-12:1.7.2-1~deb7u12:1.7.2-22:1.7.2-32:1.7~git0.20140707-12:1.8-12:1.8.1-12:1.8.2-12:1.8.2-22:1.8.2-32:1.8.2-42:1.8.2-4~deb7u12:1.8.2-4~deb7u22:1.8.2-4~deb8u12:1.8.2~beta3-12:1.9-12:1.9.1-12:1.9.1-22:1.9.2-12:1.9.3-12:1.9.3-22:1.9.4-12:1.9.5-12:1.9.5-22:1.9.5-32:1.9.5-42:1.9.5-52:1.9.5-62:1.9.5-72:1.9.6-1 |
2:1.9.9-1~deb7u1 |
enigmailDebian:8 From an advisory covering 6 CVEs |
before 2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1, plus listed versions 2:1.7.2-32:1.8-12:1.8.1-12:1.8.2-12:1.8.2-2 Show 35 moreShow less2:1.8.2-32:1.8.2-42:1.8.2-4~deb7u12:1.8.2-4~deb7u22:1.8.2-4~deb8u12:1.8.2~beta3-12:1.9-12:1.9.1-12:1.9.1-22:1.9.2-12:1.9.3-12:1.9.3-22:1.9.4-12:1.9.5-12:1.9.5-22:1.9.5-32:1.9.5-42:1.9.5-52:1.9.5-62:1.9.5-72:1.9.6-12:1.9.6-22:1.9.7-12:1.9.7-22:1.9.8-12:1.9.8.1-12:1.9.8.1-1~deb7u12:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u12:1.9.8.1-1~deb9u12:1.9.8.2-12:1.9.8.2-22:1.9.8.3-12:1.9.9-1~deb7u12:1.9~beta1-12:1.9~beta2-1 |
2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1 |
enigmailDebian:9 From an advisory covering 6 CVEs |
before 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1, plus listed versions 2:1.9.7-22:1.9.8-12:1.9.8.1-12:1.9.8.1-1~deb7u12:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1 Show 6 moreShow less2:1.9.8.1-1~deb9u12:1.9.8.2-12:1.9.8.2-22:1.9.8.3-12:1.9.9-1~deb7u12:1.9.9-1~deb8u1 |
2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1 |
thunderbirdMageia:5 From an advisory covering 10 CVEs |
before 52.5.2-1.mga5 | 52.5.2-1.mga5 |
thunderbird-l10nMageia:5 From an advisory covering 10 CVEs |
before 52.5.2-1.mga5 | 52.5.2-1.mga5 |
thunderbirdMageia:6 From an advisory covering 10 CVEs |
before 52.5.2-1.mga6 | 52.5.2-1.mga6 |
thunderbird-l10nMageia:6 From an advisory covering 10 CVEs |
before 52.5.2-1.mga6 | 52.5.2-1.mga6 |
enigmailUbuntu:14.04:LTS |
before 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions 2:1.5.2-0ubuntu12:1.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.12:1.7.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.12:1.8.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.12:1.9.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
enigmailUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
before 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions 2:1.8.2-0ubuntu12:1.8.2-4fakesync12:1.9.1-12:1.9.7-1~ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-17844 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Enigmail, published December 21, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.35%, the 71st percentile. Fixed in enigmail 2:1.9.9-1.
References
enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf
lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17844
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mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04280.html
github.com/advisories/GHSA-v476-27v8-hrp8
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17844
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0477.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22251
mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17844
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17844
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