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CVE-2014-5369
Enigmail 1.7.x before 1.7.2 sends emails in plaintext when encryption is enabled and only BCC recipients are specified, which allows…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Enigmail 1.7.x before 1.7.2 sends emails in plaintext when encryption is enabled and only BCC recipients are specified, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1096 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 60779 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/support/thread/3e7268a4/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60887 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0421.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201504-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/294/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140821 Re: Enigmail warning (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140818 Enigmail warning (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 61854 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2014-5257 (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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