CVE-2017-17689

Summary

CVECVE-2017-17689
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-16 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application 9folders Nine - All All All
Application 9folders Nine - All All All
Application Apple Mail - All All All
Application Apple Mail - All All All
Application Apple Mail - All All All
Application Apple Mail - All All All
Application Bloop Airmail - All All All
Application Bloop Airmail - All All All
Application Emclient Emclient - All All All
Application Emclient Emclient - All All All
Application Flipdogsolutions Maildroid - All All All
Application Flipdogsolutions Maildroid - All All All
Application Freron Mailmate - All All All
Application Freron Mailmate - All All All
Application Gnome Evolution - All All All
Application Gnome Evolution - All All All
Application Google Gmail - All All All
Application Google Gmail - All All All
Application Horde Horde Imp - All All All
Application Horde Horde Imp - All All All
Application Ibm Notes - All All All
Application Ibm Notes - All All All
Application Kde Kmail - All All All
Application Kde Kmail - All All All
Application Kde Trojita - All All All
Application Kde Trojita - All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2007 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2010 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2013 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2016 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2007 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2010 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2013 All All All
Application Microsoft Outlook 2016 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird - All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird - All All All
Application Postbox-inc Postbox - All All All
Application Postbox-inc Postbox - All All All
Application R2mail2 R2mail2 - All All All
Application R2mail2 R2mail2 - All All All
Application Ritlabs The Bat - All All All
Application Ritlabs The Bat - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
EFAIL MISC efail.de Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Multiple Products S/MIME CVE-2017-17689 Man In The Middle Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Matthew Green na Twitterze: "Someone asked me to summarize my views on the Efail matter, and the “controversy” in the PGP community. In case my rants yesterday were too incoherent for you, this is how I responded. https://t.co/D5L2Txm8PH… https://t.co/lFVqcLvVnt" MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
My thoughts about Efail are a bit more nuanced. First off, the real story her - Pastebin.com MISC pastebin.com Third Party Advisory
Let's summarize the situation: Abstract: S/MIME and MUAs are broken. OpenPGP (... | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Synology Inc. CONFIRM www.synology.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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