UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14954

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14954

    Published: 21 Jun 2020Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-14954

    Summary:

    Details: Mutt before 1.14.4 and NeoMutt before 2020-06-19 have a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, the client reads additional data (e.g., from a man-in-the-middle attacker) and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka "response injection."

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14954, https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/248, http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-announce/Week-of-Mon-20200615/000023.html, http://www.mutt.org/, https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases/tag/20200619, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4403-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14954, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7204-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mutt

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5.24-1ubuntu0.4

    Affected versions

    1.5.23-3.1ubuntu1
    1.5.23-3.1ubuntu2
    1.5.24-1
    1.5.24-1build1
    1.5.24-1ubuntu0.1
    1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2
    1.5.24-1ubuntu0.3

    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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