CVE-2021-39272

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

0.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 57.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

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.

Published

2021-08-30 05:05Z5 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 02:06Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2021-08-18

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-319Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive InformationBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

b55e2145b0244fbb3e4c0af6c4ef12aec8bb84a32a080d9649549626efe52dc6

• www.fetchmail.infohttps://www.fetchmail.info/security.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• nostarttls.secvuln.infohttps://nostarttls.secvuln.info/x_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/27/3x_refsource_MISC
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-ddefbdbb46https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L3XJ6XLEJCEZCAM5LGGD6XBCC522QLG4/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-9998719311https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZYCYLL73NP7ALJWSDICIVSA47ZIXWSSA/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-e61a978fefhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXMKSEHAQSEDCWZMAOJEGX3P3JW6QY6H/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202209-14https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-14vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO