CVE-2007-1558
Thunderbird APOP Password Guessing MITM
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.
INFO
Published Date :
April 16, 2007, 10:19 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
4.9
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc Added Reference http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html Added Reference http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 Added Reference http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt Added Reference http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 Added Reference http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 Added Reference http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 Added Reference http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 Added Reference http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html Added Reference http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-July/msg00000.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25353 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25476 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25496 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25534 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25559 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25664 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25750 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25798 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25858 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-06.xml Added Reference http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.571857 Added Reference http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=683706 Added Reference http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/news.html Added Reference http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1300 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1305 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:105 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:107 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:119 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:131 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-15.html Added Reference http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html Added Reference http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_36_mozilla.html Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/15/1 Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/18/1 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0344.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0353.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0385.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0401.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0402.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464477/30/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471720/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471842/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23257 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018008 Added Reference http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/ Added Reference http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-469-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-520-1 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-151A.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1466 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1467 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1468 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1480 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1994 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2788 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1231 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1232 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1424 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9782 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 16, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471720/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471842/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471842/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471720/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 11, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9782 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9782 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 18, 2007
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2007-1558 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2007-1558
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
3.61 }} -2.86%
score
0.87219
percentile