CVE-2020-14954

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14954
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-21 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionMutt before 1.14.4 and NeoMutt before 2020-06-19 have a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, the client reads additional data (e.g., from a man-in-the-middle attacker) and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka "response injection."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Mutt Mutt All All All All
Application Mutt Mutt All All All All
Application Neomutt Neomutt All All All All
Application Neomutt Neomutt All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mutt-1.14.5-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mutt-1.14.5-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mutt-1.14.5-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4708-1 neomutt DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4707-1 mutt DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Mutt, Neomutt: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202007-57) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mutt-1.14.5-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2268-2] mutt regression update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2268-1] mutt security update MLIST lists.debian.org
mutt 1.14.4 released MISC lists.mutt.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Response Injection via STARTTLS in SMTP, POP3 and IMAP (#248) · Issues · Mutt Project / mutt · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Third Party Advisory
Release NeoMutt 2020-06-19 · neomutt/neomutt · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
USN-4403-1: Mutt vulnerability and regression | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
tls: clear data after a starttls acknowledgement · neomutt/neomutt@fb013ec · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
The Mutt E-Mail Client MISC www.mutt.org Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0915-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Fix STARTTLS response injection attack. (c547433c) · Commits · Mutt Project / mutt · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0903-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 354118 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for mutt : ALAS2-2022-1892
  • 750531 OpenSUSE Security Update for neomutt (openSUSE-SU-2020:2127-1)
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