Vulnerability · Published Jun 8, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-37248

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in OfflineIMAP from OfflineIMAP. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 91.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

OfflineIMAP before 8.0.3 trusts the server with their STARTTLS capability prior to authentication, which allows STRIPTLS/man-in-the-middle attacks, taking over the connection and extracting account credentials in cleartext.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12offlineimap3no fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2020-37248
Debian:13offlineimap3no fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2020-37248
Debian:14offlineimap38.0.3+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37248
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSofflineimap3no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-37248
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSofflineimap3no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-37248
Ubuntu:25.10offlineimap3no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-37248
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSofflineimap3no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-37248
Ubuntu:26.10offlineimap3no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-37248

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
OfflineIMAP OfflineIMAP 0 – before 8.0.3

Weakness: CWE-348 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

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