CVE-2020-15917 (GCVE-0-2020-15917)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-23 18:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
common/session.c in Claws Mail before 3.17.6 has a protocol violation because suffix data after STARTTLS is mishandled.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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