CVE-2007-1558
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2007-04-16 |
Description
The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.
See more information about CVE-2007-1558 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
CVSS v2.0 metrics
NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 2.6 | Base Metrics: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector: | Network | Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None required | Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | None | Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (fetchmail) | ELSA-2007-0385 | 2007-06-07 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (mutt) | ELSA-2007-0386 | 2007-06-04 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) | ELSA-2007-0402 | 2007-05-31 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp) | ELSA-2007-0402 | 2007-05-31 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (fetchmail) | ELSA-2007-0385 | 2007-06-07 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (mutt) | ELSA-2007-0386 | 2007-06-04 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ruby) | ELSA-2009-1140 | 2009-07-02 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey) | ELSA-2007-0402 | 2007-05-31 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) | ELSA-2007-0401 | 2007-05-31 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (evolution-data-server) | ELSA-2007-0344 | 2007-06-26 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (fetchmail) | ELSA-2007-0385 | 2007-06-07 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (mutt) | ELSA-2007-0386 | 2007-06-04 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (ruby) | ELSA-2009-1140 | 2009-07-02 |
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