CVE-2005-3256
The key selection dialogue in Enigmail before 0.92.1 can incorrectly select a key with a user ID that does not have additional information, which allows parties with that key to decrypt the message.
02 Description
The key selection dialogue in Enigmail before 0.92.1 can incorrectly select a key with a user ID that does not have additional information, which allows parties with that key to decrypt the message.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-10-18 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-10-18
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2fd3f9b3528b5f45f3836cb3dfd46e9b9af4d796acf2395d1aa4361a00efe0aa
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com15155http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15155
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2005:028http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2158http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2158
- www.debian.orgDSA-889http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-889
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:226http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:226
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#805121http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/805121
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-211-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/211-1/
- www.cert.dfn.dehttp://www.cert.dfn.de/infoserv/dsb/dsb-2005-01.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 11
- enigmail Fixed in 2:0.93-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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