CVE-2020-15953

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

LibEtPan through 1.9.4, as used in MailCore 2 through 0.6.3 and other products, has 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 meddler-in-the-middle attacker) and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka "response injection."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 1.9.4-3
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.9.4-3
sid Fixed 1.9.4-3
forky Fixed 1.9.4-3
bullseye Fixed 1.9.4-3
bookworm Fixed 1.9.4-3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.