UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14929

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14929

    Published: 19 Jun 2020Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-14929
    Aliases:
    USN-7360-1

    Summary:

    Details: Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14929, http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2020-June/008989.html, https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git/commitdiff/000edd9036b6aea5e6a06900ecd6c58faec665ab, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14929, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7360-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: alpine

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.20+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2.20+dfsg1-1

    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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