Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-17688

Title: Apple Mail

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-17688.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date May 16, 2018
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-17688: The OpenPGP specification allows a Cipher Feedback Mode (CFB) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL. NOTE: third parties report that this is a problem in applications that mishandle the Modification Detection Code (MDC) feature or accept an obsolete packet type, not a problem in the OpenPGP specification

Impacted Vendors

M
microsoft 1
M
mozilla 1
P
pear 1
H
horde 1
R
roundcube 1
V
vdesk 1
C
chilkat_software 1
B
basercms 1
R
r2mail2 1
F
flipdogsolutions 1
E
emclient 1
A
apple 1
F
freron 1
B
bloop 1
C
cobalt 1
D
debian 1
P
postbox-inc 1

Reference Links

http://flaked.sockpuppet.org/2018/05/16/a-unified-timeline.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104162 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040904 https://efail.de https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060334.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066419 https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/995996706457243648 https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-18814817 https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_22 http://flaked.sockpuppet.org/2018/05/16/a-unified-timeline.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104162 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040904 https://efail.de https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060334.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066419 https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/995996706457243648 https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-18814817 https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_22
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2017-17688 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.