Description
fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
Published: 2007-01-09
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 6.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1259-1 New fetchmail packages fix information disclosure
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5851 fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-405-1 fetchmail vulnerability
References
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 cve-icon cve-icon
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 cve-icon cve-icon
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/31580 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23695 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23714 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23781 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24007 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24174 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5867 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5867 cve-icon
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Fetchmail Fetchmail
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.652Z

Reserved: 2006-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5867

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5867

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-01-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-5867 - Bugzilla

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