CVE-2006-5867
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 4.5%EU EUVD
fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.5% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5851)
- Published
- December 31, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5851 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
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and 59 more…
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/31580
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23631(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23695(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23714(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23781(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23804(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23838(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23923(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24007(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24151(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24174(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24284(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24966(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903(Patch)
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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