Vulnerability in Fetchmail
CVE-2009-2666
socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.015 (73.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Fetchmail — versions 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36175 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36236 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1852 (vendor-advisory)
- fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505530/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36179 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)