Vulnerability in Apop Protocol
CVE-2007-1558
The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- secunia.com/advisories/25496 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25529 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.claws-mail.org/news.php
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/25894 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)