Vulnerability · Published Jul 17, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-14928

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the bogofilter package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

evolution-data-server (eds) through 3.36.3 has a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects SMTP and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, eds reads additional data and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka "response injection."

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8bogofilter1.2.5-2.el8ALSA-2020:4649
AlmaLinux:8evolution-data-server-doc3.28.5-14.el8ALSA-2020:4649
AlmaLinux:8evolution-data-server-perl3.28.5-14.el8ALSA-2020:4649
AlmaLinux:8evolution-data-server-tests3.28.5-14.el8ALSA-2020:4649
AlmaLinux:8evolution-devel3.28.5-14.el8ALSA-2020:4649
Debian:12evolution-data-server3.36.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14928
Debian:13evolution-data-server3.36.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14928
Debian:14evolution-data-server3.36.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14928
Rocky Linux:8bogofilter0:1.2.5-2.el8RLSA-2020:4649
Rocky Linux:8evolution-mapi0:3.28.3-3.el8RLSA-2020:4649

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References