CVE-2017-17846

HIGH

Enigmail < 1.9.9 - Denial of Service via Regular Expression Matching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0218
EPSS Percentile 80.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
enigmail/enigmail < 1.9.9
Published Dec 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026