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5.9
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVE-2020-14093
Mutt IMAP Mail Client Authentication Bypass Vuln
Description

Mutt before 1.14.3 allows an IMAP fcc/postpone man-in-the-middle attack via a PREAUTH response.

INFO

Published Date :

June 15, 2020, 5:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 5:02 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-14093 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Opensuse leap
1 Mutt mutt
: Total Affected Vendor : 4 | Products : 4
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Upgrade mutt to a patched version to address the IMAP authentication bypass.
  • Update the affected mutt packages.
  • Upgrade to the latest available version.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2020-14093.

URL Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.mutt.org Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3e88866dc60b5fa6aaba6fd7c1710c12c1c3cd01 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.mutt.org Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3e88866dc60b5fa6aaba6fd7c1710c12c1c3cd01 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708 Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-14093 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-2020-14093 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2020-14093 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-14093 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html
    Added Reference http://www.mutt.org
    Added Reference https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300
    Added Reference https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3e88866dc60b5fa6aaba6fd7c1710c12c1c3cd01
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 27, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300 No Types Assigned https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Jul. 21, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-200 CWE-319
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 28, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 03, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 30, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 30, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 29, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 22, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 22, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://bugs.gentoo.org/728300 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 20, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 17, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    Changed Reference Type http://www.mutt.org No Types Assigned http://www.mutt.org Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3e88866dc60b5fa6aaba6fd7c1710c12c1c3cd01 No Types Assigned https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3e88866dc60b5fa6aaba6fd7c1710c12c1c3cd01 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-200
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.14.3
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 5.9
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 4.3
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.11 }} -0.21%

score

0.77243

percentile