CVE-2019-12269

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-347

Description

Enigmail before 2.0.11 allows PGP signature spoofing: for an inline PGP message, an attacker can cause the product to display a "correctly signed" message indication, but display different unauthenticated text.

Affected products

Enigmail: before 2.0.11 — fixed in 2.0.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Enigmail 2.0.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00061.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVNTEF3WSOOQYKMIPEH7F77UPXES5BU5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CYWBJHSBBLAHKMRWDWH2XXQDYAGDHB5I/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GHC5WDQ47FQSL5CTGQUYIHVC3RNZ7UH5/
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/983/
https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00061.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVNTEF3WSOOQYKMIPEH7F77UPXES5BU5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CYWBJHSBBLAHKMRWDWH2XXQDYAGDHB5I/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GHC5WDQ47FQSL5CTGQUYIHVC3RNZ7UH5/
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/983/
https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog

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