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)

EPSS: 0.015 (71.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Fetchmail — versions 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References