CVE-2020-14928

medium

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."

References

Advisories
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https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4725

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4429-1/

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4725-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-2281-1

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QMBEZWA22EAYAZQWUX4KPEBER726KSIG/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00012.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/commit/f404f33fb01b23903c2bbb16791c7907e457fbac

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME//evolution-data-server/commit/ba82be72cfd427b5d72ff21f929b3a6d8529c4df

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173910

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/226

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-7064

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N