Vulnerability CVE-2020-14929


Published: 2020-06-19

Description:
Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.

Type:

CWE-200

(Information Exposure)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Alpine project -> Alpine 

 References:
http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2020-June/008989.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html

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