Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9150 - Key Management Errors vulnerability in Mailvelope
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
Mailvelope prior to 3.3.0 does not require user interaction to import public keys shown on web page. This functionality can be tricked to either hide a key import from the user or obscure which key was imported.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/blob/master/Changelog.md#v330
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/Mailvelope_Extensions/Mailvelope_Extensions_pdf.html
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/Mailvelope_Extensions/Mailvelope_Extensions_pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
- https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/blob/master/Changelog.md#v330
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/Mailvelope_Extensions/Mailvelope_Extensions_pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/Mailvelope_Extensions/Mailvelope_Extensions_pdf.html