CVE-2025-61962

medium

Description

In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/03/2

https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt

https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/commit/4c3cebfa4e659fb778ca2cae0ccb3f69201609a8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/04/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-04

Updated: 2025-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.4

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

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:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00038