CVE-2017-17689 in SMIME

Summary

The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL.

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• Reservation: 12/15/2017
• Disclosure: 05/16/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-117827 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-310 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.1
• EPSS: 0.00447
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17689
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17689
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-17689/