CVE-2019-8338

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-347

Description

The signature verification routine in the Airmail GPG-PGP Plugin, versions 1.0 (9) and earlier, does not verify the status of the signature at all, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary email signatures by crafting a signed email with an invalid signature. Also, it does not verify the validity of the signing key, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary email signatures by crafting a key with a fake user ID (email address) and injecting it into the user's keyring.

Affected products

Gpg-Pgp Project Gpg-Pgp: through 1.0\(9\)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
https://github.com/Airmail/AirmailPlugIn-Framework/commits/master
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
https://github.com/Airmail/AirmailPlugIn-Framework/commits/master
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4

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