CVE-2007-1558

NameCVE-2007-1558
DescriptionThe APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1300-1, DSA-1305-1, DTSA-46-1, DTSA-47-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
balsa (PTS)buster2.5.6-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye2.6.1-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2.6.4-2fixed
claws-mail (PTS)buster3.17.3-2fixed
bullseye3.17.8-1fixed
bookworm4.1.1-2fixed
sid, trixie4.2.0-2fixed
fetchmail (PTS)buster6.4.0~beta4-3+deb10u1fixed
bullseye6.4.16-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm6.4.37-1fixed
sid, trixie6.4.38-1fixed
mailfilter (PTS)buster0.8.6-3fixed
bullseye0.8.7-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm0.8.9-1fixed
mutt (PTS)buster1.10.1-2.1+deb10u6fixed
buster (security)1.10.1-2.1+deb10u7fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)2.2.9-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2.2.12-0.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
balsasource(unstable)2.3.17-1unimportant
claws-mailsource(unstable)2.9.1-1unimportant
fetchmailsourceetch6.3.6-1etch3
fetchmailsource(unstable)6.3.8-1unimportant
iceapesourceetch1.0.9-0etch1DSA-1300-1
iceapesourcelenny1.0.10~pre070720-0etch1+lenny1DTSA-47-1
iceapesource(unstable)1.1.2-1
icedovesourceetch1.5.0.12.dfsg1-0etch1DSA-1305-1
icedovesourcelenny1.5.0.12.dfsg1-0etch1+lenny1DTSA-46-1
icedovesource(unstable)2.0.0.4-1
mailfiltersource(unstable)0.8.2-1unimportant
muttsource(unstable)1.5.18-6unimportant

Notes

Affects various clients, but no practical security implications
MFSA2007-15
i couldn't pinpoint exact mutt fixed version, but lenny's version has the
patch and etch's version does not (http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2846)

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