Alpine Mail Client up to 2.22 information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Alpine Mail Client up to 2.22. This affects an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-14929. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Alpine Mail Client up to 2.22. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.

The weakness was released 06/19/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at mailman13.u.washington.edu. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-14929 since 06/19/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232988 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Alpine vulnerabilities (USN-7360-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 2.23 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232988). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• Alpine

Name

• Mail Client

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22

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