CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-37248
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-06-08
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-348
Description
OfflineIMAP before 8.0.3 trusts the server with their STARTTLS capability prior to authentication, which allows STRIPTLS/man-in-the-middle attacks, taking over the connection and extracting account credentials in cleartext.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-348 Use of Less Trusted Source weakness
References
- https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/issues/669 github.com
- https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/commit/46505c53ef995455d66c685f9ec3ff6ea93dbb74 github.com
- https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/issues/222 github.com
- https://pypi.org/project/offlineimap/#history pypi.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/08/3 www.openwall.com