CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16094
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
In imap_scan_tree_recursive in Claws Mail through 3.17.6, a malicious IMAP server can trigger stack consumption because of unlimited recursion into subdirectories during a rebuild of the folder tree.
Affected configurations
• claws-mail claws-mail (<= 3.17.6)
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CRKHUOVTJBHT53J4CYU53PXYYQKSGEA/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUBLHUG2UCXVABAGN5FVTD3AB3YKE5NN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YNJIXYDMSXYDII4ERMQ4EEKZX64U3QR4/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4313 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CRKHUOVTJBHT53J4CYU53PXYYQKSGEA/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUBLHUG2UCXVABAGN5FVTD3AB3YKE5NN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YNJIXYDMSXYDII4ERMQ4EEKZX64U3QR4/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4313 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory