Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-1568 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Cisco Ironport Desktop Flag Plugin for Outlook 6.2.4.3

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
cisco
CWE-310

Summary

The Send Secure functionality in the Cisco IronPort Desktop Flag Plug-in for Outlook before 6.5.0-006 does not properly handle simultaneously composed messages, which might allow remote attackers to obtain cleartext contents of e-mail messages that were intended to be encrypted, aka bug 65623.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.