CVE-2007-1558

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    CVE-2007-1558

    Published: 16 Apr 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/25353, http://secunia.com/advisories/25402, http://secunia.com/advisories/25476, http://secunia.com/advisories/25496, http://secunia.com/advisories/25529, http://secunia.com/advisories/25534, http://secunia.com/advisories/25546, http://secunia.com/advisories/25559, http://secunia.com/advisories/25664, http://secunia.com/advisories/25750, http://secunia.com/advisories/25798, http://secunia.com/advisories/25858, http://secunia.com/advisories/25894, http://secunia.com/advisories/26083, http://secunia.com/advisories/26415, http://secunia.com/advisories/35699, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-06.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1300, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:105, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:107, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:119, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:131, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-15.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_36_mozilla.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464477/30/0/threaded, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-469-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-520-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1466, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1467, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1468, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1480, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1994, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2788, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1305, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-15.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23257, http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530, http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-July/msg00000.html, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.571857, http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=683706, http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/news.html, http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/15/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/18/1, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0344.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0353.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0385.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0401.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0402.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471720/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471842/100/0/threaded, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018008, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-151A.html, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1231, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1232, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1424, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9782

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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