CVSS 3.1
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-39272
Medium (5.9). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Fetchmail before 6.4.22 fails to enforce STARTTLS session encryption in some circumstances, such as a certain situation with IMAP and PREAUTH.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-319
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- fetchmail:fetchmail
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/27/3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L3XJ6XLEJCEZCAM5LGGD6XBCC522QLG4/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXMKSEHAQSEDCWZMAOJEGX3P3JW6QY6H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZYCYLL73NP7ALJWSDICIVSA47ZIXWSSA/
- https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/