CVE-2018-15587
GNOME Evolution through 3.28.2 is prone to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages using a specially crafted email that contains a valid signature from the entity to be impersonated as
02 Description
GNOME Evolution through 3.28.2 is prone to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages using a specially crafted email that contains a valid signature from the entity to be impersonated as
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
- 2.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2019-02-11 17:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 10:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-08-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347Improper Verification of Cryptographic SignatureBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d9889e1f27649af3171ea5aa29cbaabf14dda8e6cce41950a94a00edc9118914
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796424
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190426 [SECURITY] [DLA 1766-1] evolution security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00027.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190430 Spoofing OpenPGP and S/MIME Signatures in Emails (multiple clients)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
- seclists.org20190430 OpenPGP and S/MIME signature forgery attacks in multiple email clientshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
- github.comhttps://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1431http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00047.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1453http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00061.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3998-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3998-1/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4457https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4457
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1528http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00024.html
- seclists.org20190609 [SECURITY] [DSA 4457-1] evolution security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/7
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- evolution Fixed in 3.32.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- evolution Fixed in 3.30.5-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- evolution Fixed in 3.30.5-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- evolution Fixed in 3.30.5-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- evolution No fix yet
- evolution-data-server Fixed in 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- evolution No fix yet
- evolution-data-server Fixed in 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.