Upstream information

CVE-2014-7274 at MITRE

Description

The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmail 4.44.0 does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof IMAP servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate from a recognized Certification Authority.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 900217 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2014:1315-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`getmail >= 4.46.0-1.2` `getmail-doc >= 4.46.0-1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10525

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Oct 7 21:34:35 2014
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 22:20:03 2024