CVE catalog
CVE-2017-17848
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17848
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.84% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | enigmail | 11 | 2:1.9.9-1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.5.2-0ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.7.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.8.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.9.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 14.04 | 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 16.04 | 2:1.8.2-0ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 16.04 | 2:1.8.2-4fakesync1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 16.04 | 2:1.9.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 16.04 | 2:1.9.7-1~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | 16.04 | 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | enigmail | deb | 11 | 2:1.9.9-1 | Not reported | DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17848 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | deb | 14.04 | 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17848 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | enigmail | deb | 16.04 | 2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17848 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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