CVE-2020-15953

Description

LibEtPan through 1.9.4, as used in MailCore 2 through 0.6.3 and other products, has a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a begin TLS response, the client reads additional data (e.g., from a meddler-in-the-middle attacker) and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka response injection.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.4
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.809

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Mail Framework for C Language (USN-4598-1) libetpan17_1.6-1ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
Mail Framework for C Language (USN-4598-1) libetpan17_1.6-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux
Mail Framework for C Language (USN-4598-1) libetpan-dev_1.6-1ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
Mail Framework for C Language (USN-4598-1) libetpan-dev_1.6-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234