CVE-2018-15587 (GCVE-0-2018-15587)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-11 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:01
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Summary
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 an attachment.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2019-02-11 00:00
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