Trojita up to 0.7 MSA/SMTP.cpp certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Trojita up to 0.7. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file MSA/SMTP.cpp. Such manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-15047. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Trojita up to 0.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file MSA/SMTP.cpp. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.

The weakness was presented 06/25/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-15047 since 06/25/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

Upgrading to version 0.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Trojita

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7

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