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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-17689

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

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 4.29%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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

CVSS 3.0
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
4.29% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
9folders/nine · apple/mail · bloop/airmail · emclient/emclient · flipdogsolutions/maildroid · freron/mailmate · gnome/evolution · google/gmail · horde/horde imp · ibm/notes · kde/kmail · kde/trojita · microsoft/outlook · mozilla/thunderbird · postbox-inc/postbox · r2mail2/r2mail2 · ritlabs/the bat
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.