CVE-2006-5867
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-01-09 00:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6c506acd2b443d791cf9e5fc6b8fc627fd347e2ca25da0dc4e74f7fcfae1949b
05 Affected products
06 References
- slackware.comSSA:2007-024-01http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-405-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1
- secunia.com24966http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
- osvdb.org31580http://osvdb.org/31580
- secunia.com23781http://secunia.com/advisories/23781
- secunia.com24174http://secunia.com/advisories/24174
- www.debian.orgDSA-1259http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259
- secunia.com23838http://secunia.com/advisories/23838
- secunia.com24151http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
- docs.info.apple.comhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- secunia.com23714http://secunia.com/advisories/23714
- www.securityfocus.com21903http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903
- secunia.com24284http://secunia.com/advisories/24284
- secunia.com23631http://secunia.com/advisories/23631
- secunia.com24007http://secunia.com/advisories/24007
- secunia.com23804http://secunia.com/advisories/23804
- www.securityfocus.com20070105 fetchmail security announcement 2006-02 (CVE-2006-5867)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0088http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:004http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- www.us-cert.govTA07-109Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
- secunia.com23695http://secunia.com/advisories/23695
- fetchmail.berlios.dehttp://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2007:016http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016
- fedoranews.orgFEDORA-2007-041http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
- secunia.com23923http://secunia.com/advisories/23923
- www.openpkg.comOpenPKG-SA-2007.004http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
- www.trustix.org2007-0007http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
- www.securityfocus.com20070218 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1259-1] New fetchmail packages fix information disclosurehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200701-13http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
- securitytracker.com1017478http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919
- patches.sgi.com20070201-01-Pftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2007-04-19http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-1470http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0087http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0018http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10566https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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