CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-39272

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2021-08-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-319

Description

Fetchmail before 6.4.22 fails to enforce STARTTLS session encryption in some circumstances, such as a certain situation with IMAP and PREAUTH.

Affected configurations

• fetchmail fetchmail (< 6.4.22) • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • fedoraproject fedora 35

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

References