Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2576

Title: Claws-Mail Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2576.

CWE Category CWE-310

Published Date Oct 15, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.67%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2576: plugins/rssyl/feed.c in Claws Mail before 3.10.0 disables the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST check for CN or SAN host name fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof servers and conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

Impacted Vendors

claws-mail 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00015.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/636 http://secunia.com/advisories/60422 http://sourceforge.net/p/claws-mail/news/2014/05/claws-mail-3100-unleashed/ http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3106 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00015.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/636 http://secunia.com/advisories/60422 http://sourceforge.net/p/claws-mail/news/2014/05/claws-mail-3100-unleashed/ http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3106

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2576 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 15, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.