MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-1266

Evolution vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Evolution 2.8.1 and earlier does not properly use the --status-fd argument when invoking GnuPG, which prevents Evolution from visually distinguishing between signed and unsigned portions of OpenPGP messages with multiple components, which allows remote attackers to forge the contents of a message without detection.
Affected vendor
Gnome
Affected product
Evolution
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2007-03-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gnome Evolution is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-1266.
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