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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…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 15155 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2005:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2158 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- DSA-889 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:226 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- VU#805121 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- USN-211-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.cert.dfn.de/infoserv/dsb/dsb-2005-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-3255 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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