CVE-2006-5867

fetchmail not enforcing TLS for POP3 properly

Published Jan 9, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 7.8 High EPSS 4.5% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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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
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:04 PM
Reserved
Nov 14, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 31, 2006, 5:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:32 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 4, 2007, 12:00 AM