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FreeBSD : Machine-in-the-middle response injection attack when using STARTTLS with IMAP, POP3, and SMTP (29b13a34-b1d2-11ea-a11c-4437e6ad11c4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137789

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

mutt 1.14.4 updates :

CVE-2020-14954 - Machine-in-the-middle response injection attack when using STARTTLS with IMAP, POP3, and SMTP

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?09b1c14b

http://www.nessus.org/u?22788dbc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137789

File Name: freebsd_pkg_29b13a34b1d211eaa11c4437e6ad11c4.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 6/25/2020

Updated: 6/30/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14954

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mutt, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14954