Vulnerability CVE-2006-5867


Published: 2006-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
Fetchmail -> Fetchmail 

 References:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566

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