CVE-2005-1505 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The new account wizard in Mail.app 2.0 in Mac OS 10.4, when configuring an IMAP mail account and checking the credentials, does not prompt the user to use SSL until after the password has already been sent, which causes the password to be sent in plaintext.

Published: 2005-05-11

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apple:mail:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-1508	The new account wizard in Mail.app 2.0 in Mac OS 10.4, when configuring an IMAP mail account and checking the credentials, does not prompt the user to use SSL until after the password has already been sent, which causes the password to be sent in plaintext.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00489.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111539448630095&w=2
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20670

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Apple Mail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-11T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:51:50.421Z

Reserved: 2005-05-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1505

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1505

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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