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CVE-2006-5867

Date: January 8, 2007

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.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (40)

Url: http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24151

Url: http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429

Url: http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23838

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-5867

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24966

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24007

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23714

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24284

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23695

Url: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23631

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259

Url: http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23923

Url: http://osvdb.org/31580

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23804

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5867

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23781

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24174

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-5867

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2006-5867

Date: January 8, 2007

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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